george@rebel.UUCP (02/12/87)
Distribution: Recent changes in our BSD 4.2 derived OS have raised an interesting performance problem with GNU Emacs 17.64. When display-time is invoked, the Emacs process somehow places a constant compute load on the system (i.e. if the system was idle before invoking display-time and showed a 0.00 load average, then it will show a 1.00 load average after display-time - approximate). Now, this is almost certainly due to our particular system and not a general problem with Emacs. I would appreciate it if some kind soul could point me in the right direction to search for where this might be happening so that I can make a work-around. It would have to be an operational difference in Emacs between a no sub-process environment and the sub-process environment. Any ideas? Please respond by mail since my problem is probably not of general interest.