Re: occasional pause (or stutter) on win32 emacs 23.0.95

[Vincent Goulet]

On 9 sep, 15:56, Tyler Smith <tyler.sm...@eku.edu> wrote:
> Matthew Daniel wrote:
> > Periodically, emacs will pause - often with the Windows hourglass. It
> > does accept my keystrokes, because when it "releases" they appear in
> > the current buffer. These pauses last about 3 seconds, and I would not
> > characterize them as variable in length. I have not found any
> > systematic way of inducing the pause, but they happen pretty
> > frequently during a C-x C-s sequence.
>
> I had similar problems using the official Gnu Emacs release on Windows
> Vista, using an HP EliteBook. The program would freeze up periodically,
> not responding to anything for several seconds at a time. This happened
> often enough (once every few minutes or so) to make it unusable. Same
> thing with the version shipped with Cygwin.
>
> I switched to the version packaged by Vincent Goulet, and now everything
> works very smoothly. I'm not sure what he does, but it fixed my problem.
> The site is here:
>
> http://vgoulet.act.ulaval.ca/en/ressources/emacs/

[Thanks to Elena for pointing me to this discussion.]

My distribution is built from the precompiled binaries distribution at
gnu.org. I do make one modification, though, that _was_ important back
in the 21.x days when I started building a distribution.

Does freezing happen when you switch from Emacs to another application
and then back? I found out (can't remember how) way back that this
happens when no HOME environment variable is defined. That's why it is
automatically created by my installation wizard when the variable does
not previously exist.

That may do the trick.

HTH

Vincent


>
> HTH,
>
> Tyler> I have experienced this on both Windows XP 32-bit and Windows Vista
> > 64-bit, on two separate machines (both Dells, and their only
> > commonality is that they both use an Intel X-25M SSD).
>
> > My question is not necessarily "what is causing this", as I understand
> > that my description is very hand-wavey. However, if someone can tell
> > me what to check for, or how one would go about troubleshooting this
> > behavior, I will do my best to help me help you help me. :-)
>
> > I have already tried starting `emacs.exe -q --no-site-file` to ensure
> > it isn't some local configuration problem.
>
> >  Any insight will be greatly appreciated,
> >  -- /v\atthew
>
> > p.s. please excuse this if it sends twice, I didn't have any luck the
> > first time I tried to send it.