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

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>
> Cc: Justin Van Winkle <justin.vanwinkle@gmail.com>,  33194@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2018 09:39:50 +0100
> 
> One defense action which comes to mind is to manage the incoming
> events. If there is a burst of `change' events in a short time, they
> could be cumulated to one event, as inotify does. Implemented in
> `file-notify-handle-event', this would applicable to all file
> notification backends, and not only to inotify.

But won't that by itself require CPU for processing?