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Emacs is eating cpu - but it's been idle for a long time

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (kevles@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Tue Sep 5 17:05:42 1989

From: <kevles@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
Date: Tue, 5 Sep 89 17:05:24 -0400
To: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
(pVax, 6.3B)

I noticed my load was high, so I did a 'ps aux | more'.  Here are the results.
(Note that my emacs (emacsclient) has been untouched for at least 10 minutes,
and that the tetris is between games and iconified.)

USER       PID %CPU %MEM   SZ  RSS TT STAT  TIME COMMAND
root       276 39.8  7.5  773  479 co R    12:58 - -su -bs :0 ttyv0 (Xqvss)
kevles     301 33.7 10.9  992  702 v0 S     7:22 emacs
kevles     610 22.9  1.8  131  109 p0 S     6:41  (Tetris)
root       304  0.7  2.3  410  140 v0 S     0:15 xterm -geometry 80x41+1-0
kevles     310  0.1  0.1    0    0 p2 D     0:00  (more)
root       174  0.0  0.2    5    4 ?  I     0:06 /etc/update -n


(more...)

I'm running 3 xterms, emacs, tetris, xload, and xclock.

--Beth

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