Re: Emacs W32 HEAD: Pausing on disk access

[Deniz Dogan]

On 2011-10-31 05:14, Les Harris wrote:
> I've been tracking head and building a windows build using a
> Gnuwin32/Mingw toolchain.  Sometimes, on what appears to be disk access
> (visiting/saving a file, eldoc lookups, etc,) Emacs will freeze for
> roughly 1-3 seconds.
>
> Its a little sporadic (in the sense it doesn't necessarily happen on
> every diskaccess) but quite consistant and frequent.
>
> What can I do to assist in tracking down what's causing this?  Or
> perhaps I am the only person seeing this and it is a local system issue?
>
> I certainly don't see this behavior in a GNU/Linux environment.
>
> Thank you!

When I experience what you describe it's because the disk being 
written/read to/from is "cold" and is starting up again.  When this 
happens on Windows 7, it gives off a sound similar to "blooOOoOoop!!"