Subject: Re: bug#31179: 26.1; eww leaves processes that slow Emacs

From: Alex Branham <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2018 09:25:07 -0500

On Mon 16 Apr 2018 at 09:20, Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]> wrote:

> Alex Branham <[email-masked]> writes:
>
>> Eww is slow and makes Emacs slow when visiting a website with (for
>> example) gifs[1]. Which is understandable, given that a text editor is
>> trying to display a modern web page.
>>
>> However, Emacs is slow even after killing the eww buffer. M-x
>> list-processes shows that several processes are still lying around. Is
>> there a way to make eww kill these?
>
> What processes are these?

For that example url I gave, I have in M-x list-processes:

resources.bl... --      open    --              --           (network connection to resources.blogblog.com)
www.blogger.com --      open    --              --           (network connection to www.blogger.com)
www.mostlyma... --      open    --              --           (network connection to www.mostlymaths.net)