Re: occasional pause (or stutter) on win32 emacs 23.0.95

[Tyler Smith]

Matthew Daniel wrote:
> Periodically, emacs will pause - often with the Windows hourglass. It
> does accept my keystrokes, because when it "releases" they appear in
> the current buffer. These pauses last about 3 seconds, and I would not
> characterize them as variable in length. I have not found any
> systematic way of inducing the pause, but they happen pretty
> frequently during a C-x C-s sequence.
>
>   
I had similar problems using the official Gnu Emacs release on Windows 
Vista, using an HP EliteBook. The program would freeze up periodically, 
not responding to anything for several seconds at a time. This happened 
often enough (once every few minutes or so) to make it unusable. Same 
thing with the version shipped with Cygwin.

I switched to the version packaged by Vincent Goulet, and now everything 
works very smoothly. I'm not sure what he does, but it fixed my problem. 
The site is here:

http://vgoulet.act.ulaval.ca/en/ressources/emacs/

HTH,

Tyler
> I have experienced this on both Windows XP 32-bit and Windows Vista
> 64-bit, on two separate machines (both Dells, and their only
> commonality is that they both use an Intel X-25M SSD).
>
> My question is not necessarily "what is causing this", as I understand
> that my description is very hand-wavey. However, if someone can tell
> me what to check for, or how one would go about troubleshooting this
> behavior, I will do my best to help me help you help me. :-)
>
> I have already tried starting `emacs.exe -q --no-site-file` to ensure
> it isn't some local configuration problem.
>
>  Any insight will be greatly appreciated,
>  -- /v\atthew
>
> p.s. please excuse this if it sends twice, I didn't have any luck the
> first time I tried to send it.
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