Re: still seeing semi-regular lockups

[dieter@schoen.or.at]

hi,

on my machine wanderlust hangs from time to time when i am inside the company net and
the proxy has hiccups.
then C-g (sometimes several) usually help.

in the link below i found an interesting variable, debug-on-quit.
when it is set, emacs enters the debugger when you hit C-g.

sendings signal to emacs from external usually only kills it.
the only signal which i am aware of that can be caught is SIGUSR1.
i used to use it to notify emacs about network changes.

hope this helps,
dieter

[1] http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Infinite-Loops.html#Infinite-Loops



>---- Original Message ----
>From: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
>To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
>Sent: Wed, May 14, 2014, 10:36 AM
>Subject: [O] still seeing semi-regular lockups
>
>Hey there,
>
>After Nicolas made the last round of improvements to the caching
>mechanism I got far fewer hangs with Org, but they are still happening.
>Maybe once a day or so, on average, editing something in an Org buffer
>causes emacs to hang, and my fans to spin up, and there we are until I
>kill emacs.
>
>It happens often enough that I guess it's worth running emacs under some
>kind of debugger -- at least, I assume that's the best way of catching
>the bug. I'm not really sure how to go hunting, though, so if anyone had
>any advice in this direction, that would be great.
>
>In the meantime, is there any way of interrupting emacs so it quits
>whatever its doing, without having to kill it? I've played around with
>sending different signals using "kill", just for fun, but everything
>I've tried either does nothing, or kills emacs altogether.
>
>Cheers,
>Eric