Unresponsive Emacs

[Nick Roberts]

Symptoms:

Over time Emacs seems to get very busy when I've not asked it to do anything.
The backtrace always looks (something like):

(gdb) xbacktrace
"generate-new-buffer-name"
"generate-new-buffer"
"ctext-pre-write-conversion"
"encode-coding-string"
"xselect-convert-to-string"

I've sent this e-mail from a separate invocation, but this configuration
should be pretty much right.

Nick


In GNU Emacs 21.3.50.4 (i586-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars)
 of 2004-12-10 on farnswood.snap.net.nz
Distributor `Mandrake Linux (XFree86 4.2.1, patch level 3mdk)', version 
11.0.40201000
configured using `configure 'CFLAGS=-g3''

Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: en_GB
  value of $LC_CTYPE: en_GB
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: en_GB
  value of $LC_MONETARY: en_GB
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: en_GB
  value of $LC_TIME: en_GB
  value of $LANG: en_GB
  locale-coding-system: iso-latin-1
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: Lisp Interaction

Minor modes in effect:
  auto-compression-mode: t
  show-paren-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  menu-bar-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  font-lock-mode: t
  unify-8859-on-encoding-mode: t
  utf-translate-cjk-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t
  transient-mark-mode: t

Recent input:
M-x r e p r SPC <backspace> o r SPC e SPC SPC <ret
urn>

Recent messages:
(emacs/src/emacs)
Loading disp-table...done
Loading tool-bar...done
Loading image...done
Loading tooltip...done
Loading paren (compiled; note, source file is newer)...done
Loading jka-compr...done
Loading font-lock (compiled; note, source file is newer)...done
Loading jit-lock...done
Loading emacsbug...done