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24.3; Mac OS X, Mavericks, distnoted process

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From: Christopher Smith <cbsmith <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#15946: 24.3; Mac OS X, Mavericks, distnoted process
Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2013 04:38:59 +0000 (UTC)

Donald Tillman <don <at> till.com> writes:
> Hi!
> 
> I use Emacs on Mac OS X, Mavericks, Intel MacBook Pro, downloaded from
> emacsformacosx.com.
> 
> Running Emacs, a process named "distnoted" starts around 1% or 2% of the
> CPU, and after a while, slowly works its way up to 50% to 100% of
> the CPU.  Yoiks!  Actually there appear to be 3 distnoted processes,
> but only one eats up the CPU.
> 
> Quitting Emacs brings distnoted down to under 1% within seconds. 

Just wanted to bump this up, as I've now seen this bug myself. Not sure
why Emacs is causing the problem. My emacs was built from macports.

--Chris

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