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

From: Andreas Schwab <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2018 17:08:31 +0200

On Apr 16 2018, Alex Branham <[email-masked]> wrote:

> 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?

Does it help to set url-http-attempt-keepalives to nil?

Andreas.

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