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From: "Barry A. Warsaw" <bwarsaw@anthem.cnri.reston.va.us>
To: Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr>
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Subject: Re: More performance troubles -- saving
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    Hrv> How do you define a hang?  It's simply slower than it should
    Hrv> be. Maybe it's a glitch of my machine, though (I run XEmacs
    Hrv> on a SPARC 20 with a lot of users logged in).

What I notice is that occasionally saving a file can make XEmacs 19.14
unresponsive (even to C-l :-) for at least 30 seconds and up to a
minute or so.  I don't believe NFS is getting in the way.  It seems
fairly random and not related to the size of the file being saved (in
fact, saving the same file some minutes later results in no hang).
Eventually XEmacs unwedges itself and is back to normal for a while.

FTR: Sun Sparc 5, Solaris 2.5 (w/ current patch set), XEmacs 19.14
built with the following configureation:

./configure \
	--prefix=/depot/gnu \
	--exec-prefix=/depot/gnu/plat \
	--puresize=1200000 \
	--site-libraries="/depot/gnu/plat/lib /depot/sundry/plat/lib" \
	--site-runtime-libraries="/depot/gnu/plat/lib /depot/sundry/plat/lib" \
	--site-includes="/depot/gnu/include /depot/sundry/include" \
	--error-checking=none \
	--with-xface=yes \
	--with-database=no \
	--with-database=gnudbm

-Barry

