From owner-ntemacs-users@cs.washington.edu Tue Jun 10 12:05:19 1997 X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil] [nil "Tue" "10" "June" "1997" "14:31:47" "-0400" "Tom Horsley" "tom@amber.ssd.hcsc.com" nil "20" "Re: Emacs hanging." "^From:" nil nil "6" nil nil nil nil] nil) Received: from joker.cs.washington.edu (joker.cs.washington.edu [128.95.1.42]) by june.cs.washington.edu (8.8.5+CS/7.2ju) with SMTP id MAA13472 for ; Tue, 10 Jun 1997 12:05:19 -0700 Received: from trout.cs.washington.edu (trout.cs.washington.edu [128.95.1.178]) by joker.cs.washington.edu (8.6.12/7.2ws+) with ESMTP id MAA31839 for ; Tue, 10 Jun 1997 12:05:17 -0700 Received: (majordom@localhost) by trout.cs.washington.edu (8.8.5+CS/7.2ws+) id LAA18122 for ntemacs-users-outgoing; Tue, 10 Jun 1997 11:33:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from june.cs.washington.edu (june.cs.washington.edu [128.95.1.4]) by trout.cs.washington.edu (8.8.5+CS/7.2ws+) with ESMTP id LAA18118 for ; Tue, 10 Jun 1997 11:33:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hawk.hcsc.com (ns.ccur.com [207.49.146.1]) by june.cs.washington.edu (8.8.5+CS/7.2ju) with SMTP id LAA10679 for ; Tue, 10 Jun 1997 11:33:51 -0700 Received: from amber-36.ssd.hcsc.com by hawk.hcsc.com (5.61/harris-5.1) id AA29181; Tue, 10 Jun 97 14:33:49 -0400 Received: by amber.ssd.hcsc.com (5.61/CX/UX-5.0) id AA27863; Tue, 10 Jun 97 14:31:47 -0400 Message-Id: <9706101831.AA27863@amber.ssd.hcsc.com> In-Reply-To: References: Reply-To: Tom.Horsley@mail.ccur.com Precedence: bulk From: tom@amber.ssd.hcsc.com (Tom Horsley) Sender: owner-ntemacs-users@cs.washington.edu To: "Rosbach, Hans A." Cc: "'ntemacs-users@cs.washington.edu'" Subject: Re: Emacs hanging. Date: Tue, 10 Jun 97 14:31:47 -0400 >Have anyone else had similar problems, and perhaps even found some >remedy? I have emacs hang anytime the network service it is trying to talk to isn't actually disconnected, but isn't responsive either. With the problems worldnet had in the past with their mail servers, I would often hang (seemingly forever) trying to check for new mail using VM. I've never looked at the source code, but from the external behavior I get the impression the socket stuff might be using blocking calls with no (or exceedingly large) timeouts. I could often run netscape or outlook or something to try to read mail at close to the same time, and they would only sit there for a few minutes, then give me an error about mail server not responding. -- Tom.Horsley@mail.ccur.com or Tom.Horsley@worldnet.att.net Work: Concurrent Computers, 2101 W. Cypress Creek Rd. Ft. Lauderdale FL 33309 The 2 most important political web sites: http://www.vote-smart.org (Project Vote Smart), and http://home.att.net/~Tom.Horsley/ (Me!)