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Re: diagnosing emacs hangs



At Mon, 21 Jun 2010 21:18:41 -0400, Matt Price wrote:

> I'm now using emacs for almost everything and of course that's great,
> except that it is essentially a single-threaded OS that currently HANGS
> with some frequency (100% CPU usgte that will continue for hours if you
> let it go.  I think this probably has something to do with wanderlust or
> possibly org-mode (and/or misconfigurations i've made to both of these);
> but at present i cna't be sure since i have no idea how to diagnose
> these hangs.  Can someone give me some general directions on how to
> proceed with the diagnosis, and if you have them, some pointers on how
> you fixed a similar problem that you used to have?  Right now it's very
> frustrating -- I find myself losing substantial amounts of work when I
> kill emacs & maybe more importantly, i'm constantly losing my train of
> thought.  

This may be due to hung connection to imap server plus bug in
relatively old Emacs (like yours). Also my Emacs hangs when I open
mail with large image in attachment. However, it's still possible to
get it back to live with many C-g + Esc.
-- 
wbr, Vitaly