Re: silent PC vs. emacs

[Jan Djärv]

Dan Nicolaescu skrev:
> Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
>
>   > > Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden,
>   > >         address@hidden
>   > > From: Dan Nicolaescu <address@hidden>
>   > > Date: Sat, 02 Sep 2006 09:59:31 -0700
>   > > 
>   > >   >  . The blink-cursor mode uses a timer (that probably explains setitmer
>   > >   >    and SIGALRM)
>   > >   > 
>   > >   >  . select calls are issued when Emacs enters the idle loop
>   > >   > 
>   > >   >  . The rest might be because the blink-cursor mode causes signals,
>   > >   >    which then require various system calls, like select, to be
>   > >   >    restarted
>   > > 
>   > > 
>   > > The same thing happens when blink-cursor-mode is turned off. It is a
>   > > bit less frequent, but still a few times a second.
>   > 
>   > You mean, you still have setitimer and SIGALRMs, even without
>   > blink-cursor-mode?
>
> Yes, that's exactly what I mean.

The lucid and lesstif/Motif builds have a 0.1 timer that runs all the time. 
This is to detect timeouts done by Xt.  Maybe this is what you see?

        Jan D.