Re: Emacs in CVS plus GTK patches hogs CPU

[Jan D.]

> I've been using the #2 GTK patch for several days with some heavy use,
> and this is my first problem.  I'm not positive it is GTK related.
> 
> Emacs is unresponsive to C-g and consumes all CPU.  Attaching with gdb
> and breaking alternatively generates two different backtraces (see
> below).  At the time I was reading mail from a IMAP group using Gnus
> (i.e., likely both network activity and keyboard activity).
> 
> I'll keep the process running if someone has any ideas what to
> investigate.

I have Motif and GTK versions running side by side, the GTK version
actually takes *less* CPU for me.

Can you strace or truss the Emacs process to see if is in some sort of busy
wait?  A very short timeout perhaps?

        Jan D.