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From: neil@yc.estec.nl (Neil Dixon)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: Is Epoch hogging the CPU?
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Date: 8 Jun 90 06:18:32 GMT
References: <PAGE.90Jun5135925@swap.Eng.Sun.COM> <TOMW.90Jun5235204@orac.esd.sgi.com>
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In article <TOMW.90Jun5235204@orac.esd.sgi.com>, tomw@orac.esd.sgi.com
(Tom Weinstein) writes:
|>In article <PAGE.90Jun5135925@swap.Eng.Sun.COM>, page@Eng.Sun.COM (Bob
Page) writes:
|>> Running 'top' shows that Epoch is constantly running, using 90% of the
|>> available CPU. 
|>
|>You probably have an epoch process left around from an earlier session.
|>I've had this problem too.  It seems that for some reason it doesn't die
|>when it loses it's connection to the X server.

Iconizing the minibuffer window also seems to cause epoch to eat CPU time
              
Neil Dixon <neil@yc.estec.nl> UUCP:...!mcvax!esatst!neil, BITNET: NDIXON@ESTEC
Thermal Control & Life Support Division (YC) 
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