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Re: Why would emacs be running on an idle system?
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Barry Margolin |
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Re: Why would emacs be running on an idle system? |
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Wed, 27 May 2009 21:06:22 -0400 |
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In article <mailman.7913.1243434453.31690.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>,
D W <lists@duanewinner.net> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm a casual emacs user, and I'm puzzled by this:
>
> Yesterday, I noticed that the hard drive was churning away on my idle
> laptop, even though I wasn't doing anything.
>
> I figured it was just a cron job or something, but for laughs and giggles, I
> opened an xterm and ran "top".
>
> And at the top of top, I see emacs22 as the top process.
>
> I had no emacs sessions open, and wasn't even using the system.
>
> Any ideas why I would see emacs22 in there or where I should look to find
> out what might have triggered this?
The times that I've found Emacs running heavily, it was because I was
running a shell command that was printing a high volume of output to a
buffer.
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Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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