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From: Barry Margolin <barmar@genuity.net>
Subject: Re: 1st character change in file takes forever
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 15:30:53 GMT	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <NqHL9.7$eB1.206@paloalto-snr1.gtei.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: m08yyodagg.fsf@bloombergREMOVETHISPART.com

In article <m08yyodagg.fsf@bloombergREMOVETHISPART.com>,
David Klein  <dklein@bloombergREMOVETHISPART.com> wrote:
>When I first try to insert a character into a buffer that is
>associated with a file on disk, the insert takes close to a minute!

During that first change, Emacs checks whether someone else has modified
the file, and also checks for a lock file.  For some reason, these checks
are taking a long time.  Try doing a system call trace to see what it's
doing during that time.

-- 
Barry Margolin, barmar@genuity.net
Genuity, Woburn, MA
*** DON'T SEND TECHNICAL QUESTIONS DIRECTLY TO ME, post them to newsgroups.
Please DON'T copy followups to me -- I'll assume it wasn't posted to the group.

  reply	other threads:[~2002-12-17 15:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-12-17 13:46 1st character change in file takes forever David Klein
2002-12-17 15:30 ` Barry Margolin [this message]
2002-12-22 11:33   ` David Klein
2002-12-22 19:15     ` Michael Powe
2002-12-24  8:19       ` David Klein

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