From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Debugging advice Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2017 17:16:38 -0400 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1497647838 7878 195.159.176.226 (16 Jun 2017 21:17:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2017 21:17:18 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jun 16 23:17:15 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dLycF-0001qL-CC for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 16 Jun 2017 23:17:15 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60757 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dLycK-0006zF-Ff for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 16 Jun 2017 17:17:20 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:50985) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dLybt-0006yy-34 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Jun 2017 17:16:53 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dLybo-00006H-4y for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Jun 2017 17:16:53 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=54018 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dLybn-000067-UF for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Jun 2017 17:16:48 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dLybe-0008QD-FF for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Jun 2017 23:16:38 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 12 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:3Sf8vVptI9tVCqkTHrTbNIO4n/E= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:113496 Archived-At: > My environment is (maybe unfortunately) Cygwin64 under Windows, of course. > Occasionally while working emacs stops responding to me and I watch it's > memory consumption rise from 407MB to 1533MB along with a ramp in CPU usage. > I want to find out what it is doing and can not find any information on how > to monitor background activity in Emacs. A tool I've used for that in the past is the cpu profiler. Try to M-x profiler-start, then try and reproduce the problem and then M-x profiler-report. Stefan