bug#122: 23.0.60; Slowdown in directory scanning over time.

[Len Trigg <lenbok@gmail.com>]

Chong Yidong wrote:
> I can't reproduce this.  Do you still see the problem?  If so, could you
> try to make a recipe for reproducing the bug?

I do still have the problem, although I have not updated my emacs
since July 7th.  I will try to update it now, and will let you know in
a couple of days time if things are degraded.  It is very easy for me
to reproduce, because it happens always :-)

Perhaps my emacs usage is unusual in some ways that cause the
degradation over time.

I typically have emacs running in one terminal window, and two other
emacsclients connected.  In terms of long-running emacs
operations/code, there is the following:

I run wanderlust as my primary email client. Running all the time.

I run erc for IRC.  Running all the time.

I have a cronjob that fetches ics calendar files, and invokes a new
emacs -eval with icalendar.el to convert to diary format, and if there
are changes, invokes emacsclient -c -eval to tell the running emacs to
refresh its diary.

I often have a bunch of Java code buffers open - this bug particularly
affects JDEE performance because it involves lots of directory
scanning when switching projects or opening new java files.


Cheers,
Len.