[879] in testers
emacs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Fri May 25 05:25:57 1990
Date: Fri, 25 May 90 05:25:33 -0400 (EDT)
From: John F Carr <jfc@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
To: testers@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
I have a core dump from emacs in achates:/u1/dumps/core.emacs.vax. I
got this dump with gcore. The emacs process will not die until I kill
-KILL it.
I had deiconfied the emacs window a few tens of seconds before, and
noticed it wasn't redrawing. Then I noticed it was eating 99% of CPU
time. At this point I stopped it, gcored it, and restarted it. CPU
time printed by ps went down to 0, but in reality it was still using
99%+ -- most of it kernel time. Here's the stack trace:
