From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ian Barton Subject: Re: diagnosing emacs hangs Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2010 07:04:50 +0100 Message-ID: <4C205282.6070307@manor-farm.org> References: Reply-To: lists@manor-farm.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=35981 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OQwbO-0004SR-N9 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Jun 2010 02:04:55 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OQwbN-0004gW-Hy for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Jun 2010 02:04:54 -0400 In-Reply-To: List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Matt Price Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, emacs-orgmode@gnu.org On 22/06/10 02:18, Matt Price wrote: > Hi all, > > 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 is all under Ubuntu Lucid with emacs-snapshot 20090909, > wanderlust=wl-beta 2.15.9+0.20100303, org-mode 6.34c (some of htese > are debian sid packages). > Have you tried starting Emacs from a terminal? That might give you some better idea of the error. Ian.