GNU bug report logs - #35457
26.2; global-auto-revert-mode cause 100% cpu usage

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Johannes Lundberg <johalun0 <at> gmail.com>

Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2019 16:59:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: notabug

Found in version 26.2

Done: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus <at> gmx.de>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Johannes Lundberg <johalun0 <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 35457 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#35457: 26.2; global-auto-revert-mode cause 100% cpu usage
Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2019 20:36:43 +0300

> From: Johannes Lundberg <johalun0 <at> gmail.com>
> Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2019 09:50:54 -0700
> 
> Add (global-auto-revert-mode 1) to .emacs.
> Start Emacs.
> Emacs now using 100% cpu.
> truss -p <pid> show that Emacs is doing fstatat(), possibly stuck
> endless loop.
> 
> 
> In GNU Emacs 26.2 (build 1, amd64-portbld-freebsd13.0, GTK+ Version 3.24.7)

Not reproducible on GNU/Linux.  Maybe this is a FreeBSD specific
problem, due to kqueue implementation of file notifications?

Does this happen if your .emacs includes only the above line?
This bug report was last modified 6 years and 18 days ago.

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