Subject: Re: bug#20134: Acknowledgement (24.4.90; Emacs slowdown to eventual hang)

From: martin rudalics <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 08 Apr 2015 19:57:27 +0200

> There's that xic_set_preeditarea and xcb_wait_for_event again, called
 > as part of Emacs redisplaying and setting the cursor.  I don't
 > understand why this would become progressively slower and slower
 > during a session, but then I know nothing about XIC.

Disabling XIM in Emacs could help.  See

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=78081

martin