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On Tue, Aug 08, 2000 at 12:56:56PM +0930, Brett Lymn wrote: > I am running coda-5.3.5 on a couple of NetBSD-1.5 boxes, one ... > The problem I have is that I cannot edit files in my coda file system > with emacs-20.4, if I try then emacs just spins it's wheels and chews > up all the CPU until I kill it. Emacs is sending itself signals that tend to interrupt long running upcalls to userspace. As far as I know our kernel code knows about this and explicitly ignores the signals that emacs is triggering for a while. > - this > behaviour depends on whether I have first modified the files using vi > or not. That is very unusual, I can't really explain this part. Maybe upcalls take too long because of the optimization that takes out duplicate stores from the CML. How large is your client cache? JanReceived on 2000-08-08 09:31:59