[ESS] Emacs taking over CPU

Frank Harrell f.harrell at Vanderbilt.Edu
Tue Sep 10 13:47:01 CEST 2013


Hi Martin,

I'm clueless because I'm fairly certain I did a standard apt-get install 
emacs24 to get this.

Frank


On 09/10/2013 02:13 AM, Martin Maechler wrote:
> Frank, that's a bit strange.
>
> I also have ubuntu 13.04:
> standard emacs  is  23.4.1
> 'emacs-snapshot' is  24.3.50.1
>
> If you really have 24.2.x  it must either be manually compiled &
> installed, or a non-updated version of emacs-snapshot.
>
> Best: Martin
>
>
> On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 5:57 PM, Frank Harrell <f.harrell at vanderbilt.edu
> <mailto:f.harrell at vanderbilt.edu>> wrote:
>
>     Thanks for writing Rodney.  I'm using Emacs 24.2.1 and ESS 13.05 on
>     Ubuntu 13.04 with linux 3.8.0-30.
>
>     Frank
>
>
>     On 09/09/2013 09:28 AM, Rodney Sparapani wrote:
>
>         On 09/07/2013 07:37 AM, Frank Harrell wrote:
>
>             After a long interactive R session using the latest ESS on
>             Ubuntu, Emacs
>             gets extremely sluggish and starts to take more of 98% of
>             the CPU. Below
>             is my .emacs file if relevant.  Thanks for any pointers - Frank
>
>
>         Dear Frank:
>
>         Which version of ESS and emacs is this?  And, which OS?  I don't
>         know
>         if this is an ESS or emacs issue.  There is a bug in GNU Emacs 24.1
>         and 24.2 which behaves exactly as you describe on non-Windows
>         builds:
>         Bug #12463 http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/__bugreport.cgi?bug=12463
>         <http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=12463>
>
>
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>                         Department of Biostatistics Vanderbilt University
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