emacs very slow; zombie processes eventually cleared

Thu Jul 4 01:16:00 GMT 2013

[I'm including your private message to me below to avoid breaking the 
thread.]
On 7/3/2013 5:33 PM, Rockefeller, Harry wrote:
> FWIW, my corporate email interceptor is broken. This never made it out to the list.
> I attempted to ask nicely to simply allow all emails from and to domain Cygwin.com,
> but they don't want to comply.

>>> On 7/2/2013 11:41 AM, Rockefeller, Harry wrote:
>>>> When I start emacs I get this message:
>>>> (emacs:192): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_distribute_natural_allocation:
>>>> assertion `extra_space >= 0' failed
> [snip]
> Ken asks:
>>> maybe you could do some testing to figure out what in your
>>> initialization (including X11 initialization) triggers it. This might
>>> help to pin down the bug.
>> My first response:
>> It appears to be related to version control 'vc' and maybe 'psvn' packages.
>> I removed "(require 'cl)" and load-library "vc-svn" from my .emacs init file and this message went away.
>> That's not the cause of the above GTk-Critical message.
> When I start emacs in dired mode on the current directory like this:
> "emacs -Q ."
> I don't get the Gtk message.
> But when I start emacs with my font of choice like this:
> "emacs --font 6x10 -Q ."
> I do get the Gtk message.
> I tried some other fonts:
> No Gtk message with "fixed", "rk14" and "10x20".
> Gtk message did happen with "6x9".

I can reproduce this, but only when emacs is started in dired mode. And 
emacs seems to run OK in spite of the message, though I didn't test it much.
> I don't know if this has anything to do with slowness and/or temporary zombie processes.

I don't know either. My build from the emacs trunk still gives that 
error message. It will be interesting to see whether you still have 
problems with zombie processes.
Ken
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