bug#66669: 30.0.50; [EGLOT] Emacs freezes when server sends a ton of progress notifications

[João Távora]

On Sun, Oct 22, 2023 at 5:50 AM Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>
> > Cc: joaotavora@gmail.com
> > From: Yuan Fu <casouri@gmail.com>
> > Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2023 12:10:49 -0700
> >
> > I use rust’s language server (rust-analyzer) with eglot. And whenever I 
> > turn eglot on for a project, Emacs freezes for a good 30 seconds, busy 
> > updating the eglot progress indicator, before I can do anything. I think 
> > the reason is that the rust language server sends a ton of progress 
> > notifications, which completely blocks Emacs before it’s done.
> >
> > Setting eglot-report-progress to nil doesn’t help me, presumably because 
> > eglot still needs to process the notifications.
>
> Can't this information be processed in chunks, not in one go?

Maybe, depending on what that means. I think it's important to
get to the bottom of Yuan's "presumably" first, preferably by
reproducing his problem.

João