Re: editing a file in a subversion controlled directory makes my emacs explode (almost)

[Geert Vermeiren]

On Tuesday, October 27, 2015 at 4:59:41 PM UTC+1, Óscar Fuentes wrote:
> Geert Vermeiren <woozong@gmail.com> writes:
> > When I open a file which is located in a subversion controlled
> > directory (local working copy), emacs (24.5.1 on CentOs 6) seems to
> > start doing a LOT of background stuff.
> >
> > It eats up processor resources, effectively making the system very
> > sluggish, and RAM, up to and beyond physical memory (of which my
> > machine has 32GB).
> >
> > Does anyone have any idea what is going on and how to solve this? 
> 
> Does it happen if you start emacs with
> 
> $ emacs -Q

It doesn't look like it.. I'll leave it open overnight and see if my system 
still lives in the morning ;-) 

> 
> ? How big is the file you open? Which type it is? (C source code, XML,
> etc)

The file opened is a maven build file (pom.xml), an xml file of 114KB.