GNU bug report logs - #12447
24.1.50; Stuck in garbage collection on OS X

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Harald Hanche-Olsen <hanche <at> math.ntnu.no>

Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2012 21:10:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Merged with 12326

Found in versions 24.1.50, 24.2.50

Done: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #43 received at 12447 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
Cc: 12447 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, hanche <at> math.ntnu.no
Subject: Re: bug#12447: 24.1.50; Stuck in garbage collection on OS X
Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2012 14:53:22 +0300

> Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2012 14:44:30 +0400
> From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
> CC: hanche <at> math.ntnu.no, 12447 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> Like I wrote in 12326, AFAICT, the problem is that timer_check_2 doesn't 
> at any point check that Emacs is still idle. When run-with-idle-timer 
> calls (timer-activate-when-idle timer t), the new timer is added to the 
> list, timer_check_2 reaches is and runs it immediately because 
> 'timer_idleness_start_time' still has the same value.

If that is the problem, then perhaps having timer_check_2 work on a
copy of the list would solve the problem.  Did you try that?
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