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From: | Thomas Ehren |
Subject: | RE: [h-e-w] NT Emacs locking up |
Date: | Tue, 5 Mar 2002 15:23:18 -0400 |
Thomas Ehren
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From: Nascif Abousalh-Neto [mailto:address@hidden
Sent: Tuesday, March 05, 2002 14:47
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Subject: RE: [h-e-w] NT Emacs locking up> > It is becoming common to the point of being annoying now:
> NTEmacs (21.1,
> but had the same problem in 20.7 too) goes totally blank, and
> in the Windows
> Task manager it shows up as using 98/99 % of the CPU. Only
> way out is to
> kill the Emacs process and start again (losing any unsaved changes).
>
> > Any suggestion on how to debug or prevent this behavior?
> A little more detail perhaps ;-)
> What were you doing before it hung?
> Do you run any other subprocesses, eg. gnuserv?
> Did you try killing them first?Thanks. In some cases it is clearly interaction with other processes, and killing them solves the problem. For example using ange-ftp, I got lock-ups half of the time, but killing the ftp process get me out of them.
But sometimes I got lock-ups with no apparent interaction with other processes. Then again, I don't know enough about all the Emacs internals to know when it is waiting on a separate process and when it is, say, processing an Lisp infinite loop (which I suppose gives the same behavior).
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