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

[Geert Vermeiren]

On Tuesday, October 27, 2015 at 5:47:26 PM UTC+1, Óscar Fuentes wrote:
> Geert Vermeiren <woozong@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > 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 ;-)
> 
> If the problem does not happen with -Q, there is something in your
> configuration file that is causing it to show. You can try this
> approach to pinpoint the culprit:
> 
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/23772890/how-to-find-a-bug-in-emacs-or-init-el

Overnight, nothing happened when run with -Q. 
I'll have a look at debugging my init.el 

Thanks Óscar!