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Re: Emacs problem with Cygwin 1.5.17-1
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 31 May 2005 12:19:11 -0400
- Subject: Re: Emacs problem with Cygwin 1.5.17-1
- References: <Pine.OSF.4.21.0505291435510.24977-100000@ax0rm1.roma1.infn.it>
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On Sun, May 29, 2005 at 02:49:31PM +0200, Angelo Graziosi wrote:
>---> Here is some answer to
>--->
>---> <http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2005-05/msg00261.html>
>--->
>--->
>---> With TASKMANAGER Emacs takes from 97% to 99% of CPU.
>--->
>---> Using your hints I have noted that if I do not start Emacs
>---> the command
>--->
>---> procps auwx
>--->
>---> prints the data an returns to prompt.
>--->
>---> If I start Emacs the result is:
>--->
>--->
>Administrator@graziosi-irci53 ~
>$ emacs&
>[1] 1492
>
>Administrator@graziosi-irci53 ~
>$ ps
> PID PPID PGID WINPID TTY UID STIME COMMAND
> 1448 1 1448 1448 con 500 13:05:15
>/usr/X11R6/bin/XWin
> 1364 1 1364 1364 con 500 13:05:19 /usr/bin/xterm
> 1384 1364 1384 1436 0 500 13:05:22 /usr/bin/bash
> 1492 1384 1492 1416 0 500 13:06:27 /usr/bin/emacs
> 1580 1384 1580 1572 0 500 13:06:30 /usr/bin/ps
>
>Administrator@graziosi-irci53 ~
>$ procps auwx
>USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND
>500 1448 1.4 4.2 6812 11068 tty0 Ss 13:05 0:01
>/usr/X11R6/bin/XWin -multiwindow -clipboard -silent-dup-error +bs
>500 1364 0.6 2.8 4296 7376 tty0 Rs 13:05 0:00
>/usr/bin/xterm -e /usr/bin/bash -l -ms red -fg lightgray -bg black
>500 1384 0.2 1.5 1620 4016 tty0 Ss 13:05 0:00
>/usr/bin/bash -l
>--->
>---> ... and after many minutes (i.e. after I lunched!):
>--->
>500 1492 107 2.9 7320 7752 tty0 R 13:06 0:10 <defunct>
>500 1564 1.0 1.4 2260 3676 tty0 R 13:06 0:00 procps
This shows that emacs wasn't spinning although it was using some CPU.
Other than that, there is nothing here which helps figure out why you
are having problems.
Is there anything in the X log file?
>---> What does "WJFFM" mean?
http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#WJFFM
cgf