Subject: Re: bug#50849: 28.0.50; Proposal for Emacs daemon to signal when being busy

From: Robert Pluim <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 02 Sep 2022 14:44:30 +0200

>>>>> On Fri, 02 Sep 2022 15:39:16 +0300, Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> said:

    >> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
    >> Cc: [email-masked],  [email-masked]
    >> Date: Fri, 02 Sep 2022 14:28:18 +0200
    >> 
    >> What would be a reasonable timeout here?  Say...  five seconds?

    Eli> Too short, IMO.  I'd say 10 (and expose this as a Lisp variable, so
    Eli> whoever is unhappy about the default can do what they want).

10 seconds by default, but with a command line arg, for those times
when youʼve spiked the load average to 1000 😀. And I donʼt see how
exposing it as a Lisp variable helps: the timeout would be on the
emacsclient side, not the Emacs side.

Robert
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