Original question :
I am running emacs 19.31 on a DEC Alpha system running DEC Unix V3.2C (but I
saw the same problem with emacs 19.29). The problem occurs when I run it from
the console; it works fine from X terminals.
All the functionality seems to be present, but the emacs process and the
Xserver burns up CPU time in huge quantities (1.5 CPUs on a 2100 4/233),
even when not doing anything useful. There is no lack of responsiveness
for the emacs user, but this behaviour is clearly anti-social.
Summary of responses :
The fix was to set the X display name to :0.0 as emacs doesn't like the display
set to local:0.0 and goes wild. Another suggestion was to use Xemacs but
the other fix came first so lazyness over took. Finally emacs can still go
rogue for other indetermined reasons but this is in addition to the original
problem and wasn't resolved. Thanks to -
Don Newcomer <newcomer_at_dickinson.edu>
Larry Griffith <larry_at_garfield.wsc.mass.edu>
Claes Gardling <gardling_at_nationwide.com>
Peter Stern <peter_at_wiscpa.weizmann.ac.il>
Albert De Knuydt <Bert.Deknuydt_at_esat.kuleuven.ac.be>
Email extracts :
> Yes ... I've seen it before, but only when your DISPLAY variable is set
> to local:0.0. If you set it to :0.0 or <machine>:0.0 emacs runs okay.
> Our local emacs responsible reported the bug but it is apparently somewhere
> on the bottom of the priority list ...
> You might consider running XEmacs instead. Current version
> 19.14. Available from ftp.xemacs.org (and some mirrors like ftp.uu.net)
> It's a much better alternative and is fully compatible with Emacs.
> Checkout newsgroup 'comp.emacs.xemacs'.
> I have seen a similar phenomena with Emacs 19.31 of certain users' emacs
> processes burning up cpu time while doing apparently nothing. But it
> has only happened two or three times so far and I haven't determined any
> pattern such as the way that they initiate emacs yet.
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