Re: emacs lock-ups

["Adam C. Powell, IV" <adam powell nist gov>]

Matt Nelson wrote:

> i have a user who is experiencing lockups while using emacs on our lx566
> running red hat 5.0 (mostly updated - current as of about a week ago).
> apparently, emacs becomes unresponsive and starts using 100% cpu.  he has
> to kill it from a different xterm.
>
> he sees no such problems from our 5.1/intel boxes.
>
> has anybody seen this problem?  any fixes?

I had the same problem on RH 5.0 when I compiled emacs 20.2 using gcc 2.7.2.3,
but it works beautifully on egcs 1.0.3a.

Zeen,

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