Re: Debugging advice

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Adam Taylor <mr.adtaylor@gmail.com>
> Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2017 09:58:27 -0400
> 
> My environment is (maybe unfortunately) Cygwin64 under Windows, of course.
> 
> Occasionally while working emacs stops responding to me and I watch it's
> memory consumption rise from 407MB to 1533MB along with a ramp in CPU usage.
> 
> I want to find out what it is doing and can not find any information on how
> to monitor background activity in Emacs.
> 
> Another clue is it doesn't seem to happen if Emacs is just quiescent: Just
> up on the screen but I'm not actively using it. When using the editor, the
> problem occurs on a relatively frequent beat rate - once every few minutes.
> It takes out Emacs for about 20 seconds or so.
> 
> I've turned off anything on a time (like desktop-save-mode).
> 
> I'd love to figure out what Emacs runs off and does
> 
> Any pointers are greatly appreciated.

When Emacs freezes like that, attach a debugger and produce a C-level
backtrace.  Then report the backtrace together with any other relevant
details in a bug report created by "M-x report-emacs-bug RET" (in a
separate Emacs session, of course).  Send that to
bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org.

Thanks.