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From: cs@Eng.Sun.COM (Carl Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: GNUEmacs using all the CPU on my Sun4
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Date: 14 Aug 90 18:32:14 GMT
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In article <FELIX.90Aug13165019@cayucos.ai.sri.com>, felix@ai.sri.com
(Francois Felix INGRAND) writes:
> 
> I have notice that GNUEmacs is using "lot of CPU" on my Sparc 1+.
...
> Is is possible to avoid this problem?

	I stumbled onto a workaround trying to investigate this.  Simply trace
each of the offending processes (e.g. ``trace -p 1503'') for a bit. 
You'll
notice rather a lot of output at first, then it will become quiescent.

			Carl