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Re: Hang on startup on OS X (GUI only)


From: kgthegreat
Subject: Re: Hang on startup on OS X (GUI only)
Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2015 18:12:28 -0800 (PST)
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> Emacs often hangs on startup on Mac OS X. The hangs are non-deterministic
> but frequent (25-50% of runs), consume 100% of CPU, and only happen when
> starting Emacs.app with the GUI enabled, never when running in text mode on
> the command-line. I have reproduced the hangs with an empty .emacs file and
> after having completely removed .emacs.d.

I used to face this problem on MBP. Due to the following observations, I think 
this problem is related to memory consumption.

1. Never happens after a restart, if emacs is the first app to run.
2. Almost always happens if emacs is run when MBP is up for a long time with 
lot of other apps.
3. Killing most apps especially chrome and then starting emacs = success.

Since then, I have upgraded the RAM from 2 + 2 config to 8 + 2 and have never 
faced this issue so far.


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