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RE: emacs under X intermittant 100% CPU


I've been using emacs 23.1.1 via cygwin 1.7 all day without a problem.  Thanks Ken for the tip.  Thanks to the Cygwin team for a great job.
 
Ken replied:
> On 10/29/2009 9:28 AM, Rockefeller, Harry wrote:
> > Emacs under X (all three: native cygwin Xwin, X-win32, and Exceed)
> > hangs intermittently consuming 100% of available CPU as shown by running
> > 'top'.
> >
> > Here are some version stats:
> >
> > $ emacs -version
> > GNU Emacs 21.2.1
> > $ uname -a
> > CYGWIN_NT-5.1 harryr-pc 1.5.25(0.156/4/2) 2008-06-12 19:34 i686 Cygwin
> 
> Emacs 21.2 is very old.  My advice would be to upgrade cygwin to 1.7,
> which provides emacs 23.1.  If you don't want to do that, you can
> install emacs 23.0.92 under cygwin 1.5, but it's shown as an
> "experimental" version when you run setup.exe.
> 
> Ken
> 
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