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Re: Emacs 21.2 - Garbage collector frenzy :-)
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Stefan Monnier |
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Re: Emacs 21.2 - Garbage collector frenzy :-) |
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22 Apr 2002 05:38:11 -0400 |
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>>>>> "François" == François Pinard <pinard@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
> The problem is that, at regular intervals (maybe once every fifteen
> minutes or so, I did not precisely timed it), Emacs suddenly starts
> burning CPU solidly for about 20 seconds, not responding to commands,
> and in particular, not responding to `C-g's. This occurs spontaneously,
A shot in the dark: do you happen to use font-lock (with jit-lock,
which is the case by default) and do you happen to have some very
large buffers (a typical case would be a large RMAIL buffer) ?
Stefan