From: Ian Barton <lists@manor-farm.org>
To: Matt Price <moptop99@gmail.com>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: diagnosing emacs hangs
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2010 07:04:50 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C205282.6070307@manor-farm.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimza_Fv80ho01bsrbQSobtz3qZEod6jhaGssloo@mail.gmail.com>
On 22/06/10 02:18, Matt Price wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm now using emacs for almost everything and of course that's great,
> except that it is essentially a single-threaded OS that currently
> HANGS with some frequency (100% CPU usgte that will continue for hours
> if you let it go. I think this probably has something to do with
> wanderlust or possibly org-mode (and/or misconfigurations i've made to
> both of these); but at present i cna't be sure since i have no idea
> how to diagnose these hangs. Can someone give me some general
> directions on how to proceed with the diagnosis, and if you have them,
> some pointers on how you fixed a similar problem that you used to
> have? Right now it's very frustrating -- I find myself losing
> substantial amounts of work when I kill emacs& maybe more
> importantly, i'm constantly losing my train of thought.
>
> This is all under Ubuntu Lucid with emacs-snapshot 20090909,
> wanderlust=wl-beta 2.15.9+0.20100303, org-mode 6.34c (some of htese
> are debian sid packages).
>
Have you tried starting Emacs from a terminal? That might give you some
better idea of the error.
Ian.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-06-22 6:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-06-22 1:18 diagnosing emacs hangs Matt Price
2010-06-22 2:44 ` Qiang Guo
2010-06-22 6:04 ` Ian Barton [this message]
2010-06-22 10:05 ` Tassilo Horn
2010-06-22 14:23 ` Nick Dokos
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