GNU bug report logs - #30322
Emacs 26 seems to have entered an infinite loop during GC on macOS

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Message #10 received at 30322 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: John Wiegley <johnw <at> newartisans.com>
Cc: eliz <at> gnu.org, 30322 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#30322: Emacs 26 seems to have entered an infinite loop
 during GC on macOS
Date: Wed, 09 Oct 2019 23:33:05 +0200

John Wiegley <johnw <at> newartisans.com> writes:

> I was writing an e-mail to a colleague today when my Emacs window
> completely froze up, taking 100% CPU constantly.  Since it's still in
> that state now, I decided to fire up the stochastic profiler to see
> what it's doing.  I've attached the screenshot.
>
> It claims to be spending all its time in `lisp_align_free', behaving
> as if there's a CPU busy loop now taking place inside that
> function. Since very little time is being assigned to its callees, I
> believe an infinite loop has occurred here:

This was a year ago -- are you still seeing these hangs in Emacs 27?

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