Re: shell-command-on-region takes 60 secs and huge memory for simple process

The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to comp.emacs.xemacs as well. David> This bug report will be sent to the XEmacs Development Team, David> not to your local site managers!! David> Please write in English, because the XEmacs maintainers do not have David> translators to read other languages for them. David> In XEmacs 21.4 (patch 3) "Academic Rigor" [Lucid] (i686-pc-cygwin) of Thu Jun 14 2001 on WONDARK David> configured using `configure --prefix=/usr' David> Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug David> and the precise symptoms of the bug: David> I'm in a text buffer. I execute "set-mark", then do C-u David> "shell-command-on-region", and type "date" at the prompt. David> Before I do this, I have task manager running. Hi David, using (emacs-version) "XEmacs 21.5 (beta2) \"artichoke\" [Lucid] (i586-pc-win32) of Tue Jul 31 2001 on D5DC120J" I get The current date is: Sat 08/11/2001 Enter the new date: (mm-dd-yy) inserted at mark, when I do as you describe. This happens instantaneously. Please upgrade your net-utils package via Options -> Manage Packages -> Add Download Site -> xemacs.org Options -> Manage Packages -> Update Package Index Options -> Manage Packages -> List & Install so that your bug reports will get sent to xemacs-beta(a)xemacs.org, where more XEmacs developers hang out. Best regards, Adrian David> This process takes about 60 seconds to complete, a 1 ghz David> win2k system with 256m ram. The task manager display shows David> the XEmacs process clones (two of them), and the memory David> usage jumps back and forth, between 20 and 60 meg. David> Recent keystrokes: David> | d a t a BS e RET button1 button1up C-button1 C-button1up David> C-button1 C-button1up C-button1 C-button1up C-button1 David> C-button1up C-x u C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n David> C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n David> C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-p C-p C-SPC C-u ESC | d a David> t e RET M-x r e p o r t - e m TAB RET C-g C-h k | q David> ESC | C-g C-h k | q C-h k ESC | q M-x r e p o r t - David> e m TAB RET David> Recent messages (most recent first): David> Quit David> Quit David> Loading emacsbug...done David> Loading emacsbug... David> Entering debugger... David> History item: 2 David> History item: 1 David> Wrote /home/dmkarr/java/sgs/clientsrc/com/intsoft/sgs/client/CreateDataset.java David> History item: 2 David> History item: 1 -- Adrian Aichner mailto:adrian＠xemacs.org http://www.xemacs.org/