Subject: bug#27210: 25.2; Recovering loaddefs.el with desktop-mode hangs when linum is on

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 03 Jun 2017 21:02:58 +0300

> From: [email-masked]
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>,  [email-masked]
> Date: Sat, 03 Jun 2017 13:43:45 -0400
> 
> I can reproduce this, the problem seems to be that window-start and
> window-end give the same answers as point-min and point-max respectively
> when in daemon mode.  This causes linum-update-window to make overlays
> for every line in the buffer.

So you are saying this just takes a lot of time, but will eventually
end?  If so, what is the bug here?