Re: occasional pause (or stutter) on win32 emacs 23.0.95

[Anselm Helbig]

At Mon, 7 Sep 2009 16:31:25 -0400,
Matthew Daniel <mdaniel@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I honestly tried searching for other occurrences of my problem in the
> mailing list archives, but unfortunately "pause" is also the name of
> an elisp function.
> 
> Periodically, emacs will pause - often with the Windows hourglass. It
> does accept my keystrokes, because when it "releases" they appear in
> the current buffer. These pauses last about 3 seconds, and I would not
> characterize them as variable in length. I have not found any
> systematic way of inducing the pause, but they happen pretty
> frequently during a C-x C-s sequence.
> 
> I have experienced this on both Windows XP 32-bit and Windows Vista
> 64-bit, on two separate machines (both Dells, and their only
> commonality is that they both use an Intel X-25M SSD).
> 
> My question is not necessarily "what is causing this", as I understand
> that my description is very hand-wavey. However, if someone can tell
> me what to check for, or how one would go about troubleshooting this
> behavior, I will do my best to help me help you help me. :-)
> 
> I have already tried starting `emacs.exe -q --no-site-file` to ensure
> it isn't some local configuration problem.

Can you interrupt emacs (with C-g) when this happens? If so, please do
a M-x toggle-debug-on-quit and tell use what kind of backtrace you
get.

All the best, 

Anselm


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