bug#33194: 26.1; Auto-revert mode causes emacs to use 100% cpu whenever a file is being written to in the home directory

[Michael Albinus]

Justin Van Winkle <justin.vanwinkle@gmail.com> writes:

Hi Justin,

> I enable global-auto-revert-mode.  I noticed that when I was scp'ing a
> large file to my home directory, every emacs process on my machine was
> trying to use 100% cpu.  When I stopped the file transfer, emacs would
> go back to idle cpu usage.  I ran the emacs profiler and narrowed it
> down to revert-buffer.  Auto revert was apparently listening for
> changes in my home directory, even for things like file creation or
> file modified for files emacs did not have open.

How did you "scp'ing a large file"? Inside Emacs, using Tramp, or
outside Emacs?

Best regards, Michael.