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Re: diagnosing emacs hangs



On Tue, 2010-06-22 at 09:55 +0200, Vitaly Mayatskikh wrote:
> 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.

well, i'm trying now to set elmo-network-session-idle-timeout to 30,
maybe that will fix the hung imap connection problem (not sure though).
also someone suggested switching back to emacs 23.1, which I've done;
perhaps one or the other will solve the problem.

thanks,
matt

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