Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!snorkelwacker!paperboy!meissner From: meissner@osf.org (Michael Meissner) Newsgroups: comp.emacs Subject: Re: GNUEmacs using all the CPU on my Sun4 Message-ID: Date: 14 Aug 90 03:07:39 GMT References: Sender: news@OSF.ORG Followup-To: comp.emacs Organization: Open Software Foundation Lines: 23 In-reply-to: felix@ai.sri.com's message of 13 Aug 90 23:50:19 GMT In article felix@ai.sri.com (Francois Felix INGRAND) writes: | I have notice that GNUEmacs is using "lot of CPU" on my Sparc 1+. | | Here is a top 10, and as you can see, although I am doing nothing, the 2 | gnuemacs are using 22% each. (The X server is getting a good share too). | | All these process are "idle". Does that mean that emacs is continuously | checking for inputs and therefore, forcing the system in heavy context | switching activities? | | Is is possible to avoid this problem? I don't know if it helps, but I used to see this on a Sun3 if the X server died, or emacs was left running after a session ended. By making sure emacs was done before shutting down a session I avoided the problem. -- Michael Meissner email: meissner@osf.org phone: 617-621-8861 Open Software Foundation, 11 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA, 02142 Do apple growers tell their kids money doesn't grow on bushes?