Peter Ludemann <peter.ludemann@gmail.com> writes:
Hi Peter,
>> In bug#33194, a patch for Emacs 27.0.50 is mentioned. Do you have a
>> chance to run this for test?
>
> Emacs 27.0.50 somewhat fixes the problem with global-auto-revert-mode,
> using the same desktop file (and same open files) that was causing
> problems with Emacs 26.3. (Sorry I took so long to test this.)
Thanks for the feedback, the fix in Emacs 27 seems to work.
> Emacs CPU utilization is now ~30-80% (according to top(1)) instead of
> 100%; and responsiveness is good. Of course, it would be nicer if
> emacs CPU utilization were less, so that I could fully utilize that
> core (I only have 4 cores, so losing half a core is notable on large
> tests).
If I count correctly, your desktop file contains 489 buffers. Heavy load
for global-auto-revert-mode.
This is the result of working on a project for several months (using emacs-daemon). For example, 94 of those files are from Python and SWI-Prolog standard libraries, because I needed to get implementation details ("use the source, Luke"); and I'm using pieces from about 5 packages, whose source I also need to look at.
So, it's a little sloppy, but not unreasonable, I think.
> Michael Albinus - you had a number of other questions ... do you still
> want them (or some of them) answered?
No, I don't believe so.
> PS: Here's the desktop file, in case that can give some clue as to
> what file or directory is causing problems. The "compilation"
> processes both input from and output into /tmp/pykythe_test -- as you
> can see, there are a couple of open files from that directory, but
> they're not being continuously updated, only once or twice per test.
auto-revert watches directories. Even if you watch only some few files
in a directory (I count 29 buffers which are bound to "/tmp"), there
will be lot of file notification events when other files in that
directory are changed. Maybe it helps to set auto-revert-use-notify to
nil for those files? You could do it via directory-local variales, as in
If I understand you correctly, Emacs doesn't watch individual files but instead watches the directories that those files are in ... if a file changes, then the directory will be changed with the file is written/closed. Is this a correct understanding? (Presumably the reason for this is that if files /path/to/dir/A, /path/to/dir/B, /path/to/dir/C are open in buffers, it suffices to only watch for changes to /path/to/dir; and if /path/to/dir/D is opened, no change to the watch list is needed.)
(dir-locals-set-class-variables 'auto-revert-with-polling
'((nil . ((auto-revert-use-notify . nil)))))
(dir-locals-set-directory-class
"/tmp/" 'auto-revert-with-polling)
(This is untested.)
I haven't tested this because emacs 28.05 gives me adequate performance and I can live with turning global-auto-revert on/off when I do a big test (turning it off makes the test run a bit faster because there's another 0.5 CPU available for the test).
Thanks again!
- peter
> best,
> - peter
Best regards, Michael.