Re: locked history file

[Gunnar Horrigmo]

Matt Armstrong <matt@rfc20.org> writes:

> How big is your history file?  Perhaps it is enormous, causing the IO to
> take an unusualy long time.

No, its tiny. 26K. It's not that long since I did a spring cleaning in
all of my init code, so I probably deleted it at the time.


> How is your hard disk?  If it is seeing intermitten write slowness at
> other times?  Could you be doing IO intensive tasks when these problems
> occur?

That's a good question. I shall find out.


> When you run your multiple Emacs instances, do you launch them all at
> the same time?  For example, at login?

Oh yeah, absolutely. But I've been doing that for years.


> If so, then the history save
> timers would all happen at similar times, which would increase the
> chance of a write lock conflict.

Yes, another good target for investigation.


> Feel free to file an Emacs bug on this.

Will do. 

-- 
Gunnar