bug#4590: 23.1; ERC, aspell, and CPU usage

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com> writes:

> This is a somewhat vague bug, sorry about that.
> I don't even know for certain that this is a bug in Emacs.
>
> I use ERC with the 'spelling module.
>
> I have noticed that sometimes, when ERC cannot contact an irc server
> (e.g. if it goes down or is otherwise unavailable), then aspell will
> start using all my CPU, and Emacs slows to a crawl.
>
> Killing aspell from the shell seems to fix this problem.

Is this problem still present in Emacs 24?

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