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From: george@rebel.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Performance bug (mine) in 17.64
Message-ID: <208@rebel.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 12-Feb-87 15:27:03 EST
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Posted: Thu Feb 12 15:27:03 1987
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Reply-To: george@rebel.UUCP (George M. Sipe)
Organization: Tolerant Systems, Atlanta GA
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Recent changes in our BSD 4.2 derived OS have raised an interesting
performance problem with GNU Emacs 17.64.  When display-time is
invoked, the Emacs process somehow places a constant compute load on
the system (i.e. if the system was idle before invoking display-time
and showed a 0.00 load average, then it will show a 1.00 load average
after display-time - approximate).

Now, this is almost certainly due to our particular system and not a
general problem with Emacs.  I would appreciate it if some kind soul
could point me in the right direction to search for where this might be
happening so that I can make a work-around.  It would have to be an
operational difference in Emacs between a no sub-process environment
and the sub-process environment.

Any ideas?  Please respond by mail since my problem is probably not
of general interest.