From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <8a0f2656fdd2eaadb5a71869827605bf@centurytel.net> To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] Long delay in processing under acme From: "Skip Tavakkolian" In-Reply-To: <3E381223.8090105@strakt.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 13:02:25 -0800 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 4a7ce21e-eacb-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 >>Has anyone else seen this in acme: sometimes, when doing '|fmt' or >>'|spell', I get a very long (20-30 seconds) delay in getting the output. >> >> >> > But that's what WNOHANG is for! > > :) It doesn't hang. I can continue editing while I wait for the output. From a UI perspective it can be confusing. For things like '|fmt' it is obvious because it will finally output something. For things like '|spell' where I don't know if it means there aren't any spelling errors or the return is delayed, it isn't so obvious. BTW, it isn't the system either. I can run things in other windows, during these delay periods in acme, so I don't believe it is delays in the interaction with the fs; and curiously I don't think I've ever seen this on the cpu (with drawterm).