From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/81314 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Prevent freezing when having bad connection? Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2012 16:32:38 +0100 Message-ID: <87ehu1e67d.fsf@gnus.org> References: <8762feiet9.fsf@web.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1328974375 26738 80.91.229.3 (11 Feb 2012 15:32:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2012 15:32:55 +0000 (UTC) Cc: michael_heerdegen@web.de To: ding@lists.math.uh.edu Original-X-From: ding-owner+M29594@lists.math.uh.edu Sat Feb 11 16:32:54 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RwEwX-0002F8-Q2 for ding-account@gmane.org; Sat, 11 Feb 2012 16:32:53 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1RwEwU-00082b-Kl; Sat, 11 Feb 2012 09:32:50 -0600 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1RwEwT-00082Q-Mc for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sat, 11 Feb 2012 09:32:49 -0600 Original-Received: from hermes.netfonds.no ([80.91.224.195]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1RwEwS-0000Nv-UT for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sat, 11 Feb 2012 09:32:49 -0600 Original-Received: from 93-41-188-50.ip82.fastwebnet.it ([93.41.188.50] helo=rusty) by hermes.netfonds.no with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1RwEwL-00085r-JM; Sat, 11 Feb 2012 16:32:41 +0100 In-Reply-To: <8762feiet9.fsf@web.de> (Michael Heerdegen's message of "Fri, 10 Feb 2012 22:00:50 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.130002 (Ma Gnus v0.2) Emacs/24.0.93 (gnu/linux) X-MailScanner-ID: 1RwEwL-00085r-JM MailScanner-NULL-Check: 1329579162.16951@MZcuTfeHK2+HVUQeWKH5aA X-Spam-Status: No X-Spam-Score: -1.9 (-) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:81314 Archived-At: Michael Heerdegen writes: > The problem: if I start Gnus in this situation, Emacs gets frozen > forever. I get nearly 100% CPU usage, but nothing happens anymore. > Even worse, I can't break up. C-g, ESC ESC ESC, nothing has an effect. > Also closing the UMTS connection makes no difference. > > Is there any way to I improve this? Could you do an "strace -fp" on the Emacs process when this happens? -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no * Sent from my Rome