Why would emacs be running on an idle system?

Why would emacs be running on an idle system?

[D W]

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Hello,

I'm a casual emacs user, and I'm puzzled by this:

Yesterday, I noticed that the hard drive was churning away on my idle
laptop, even though I wasn't doing anything.

I figured it was just a cron job or something, but for laughs and giggles, I
opened an xterm and ran "top".

And at the top of top, I see emacs22 as the top process.

I had no emacs sessions open, and wasn't even using the system.

Any ideas why I would see emacs22 in there or where I should look to find
out what might have triggered this?


This is Ubuntu (Xubuntu Hardy).

Thanks,
DW

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Re: Why would emacs be running on an idle system?

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 27.05.2009 um 15:44 schrieb D W:

> Any ideas why I would see emacs22 in there or where I should look  
> to find
> out what might have triggered this?


Do you have pstree to see the tree of processes involved in creating  
that GNU Emacs 22 process?

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Re: Why would emacs be running on an idle system?

[Pascal J. Bourguignon]

Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE> writes:

> Am 27.05.2009 um 15:44 schrieb D W:
>
>> Any ideas why I would see emacs22 in there or where I should look
>> to find
>> out what might have triggered this?
>
>
> Do you have pstree to see the tree of processes involved in creating
> that GNU Emacs 22 process?

or: ps fax with procps.

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__Pascal Bourguignon__

Re: Why would emacs be running on an idle system?

[Barry Margolin]

In article <mailman.7913.1243434453.31690.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>,
 D W <lists@duanewinner.net> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I'm a casual emacs user, and I'm puzzled by this:
> 
> Yesterday, I noticed that the hard drive was churning away on my idle
> laptop, even though I wasn't doing anything.
> 
> I figured it was just a cron job or something, but for laughs and giggles, I
> opened an xterm and ran "top".
> 
> And at the top of top, I see emacs22 as the top process.
> 
> I had no emacs sessions open, and wasn't even using the system.
> 
> Any ideas why I would see emacs22 in there or where I should look to find
> out what might have triggered this?

The times that I've found Emacs running heavily, it was because I was 
running a shell command that was printing a high volume of output to a 
buffer.

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