stracing emacs with spacemacs config shows a lot of pselect timeouts

[naseer]

I was trying to debug some stutters and hangs in emacs so I fired up strace and saw a lot of these pselect timeouts happening continuously

pselect6(9, [3 4 8], [], NULL, {0, 62541168}, {NULL, 8}) = 0 (Timeout)

I'm using terminal emacs 24.4.1 on Ubuntu 14.04.

[syl20bnr]

Interesting can you post the list of the layers in your dotfile ?

[naseer]

This happens by default (no .spacemacs)

[naseer]

Also, spacemacs version is today's master.

[syl20bnr]

Ok, I have no linux box right now to test but blind shot: can you add guide-key to dotspacemacs-excluded-packages and check again ?

[naseer]

Are you on OS X? On OSX dtruss spews the following on idle screen.

select(0xC, 0x7FFF5FBFEAF0, 0x7FFF5FBFEA70, 0x0, 0x7FFF5FBFE790) = 0 0
__pthread_sigmask(0x1, 0x7FFF5FBFC08C, 0x0) = 0 0
__pthread_sigmask(0x2, 0x7FFF5FBFC08C, 0x0) = 0 0
select(0xC, 0x7FFF5FBFEAF0, 0x7FFF5FBFEA70, 0x0, 0x7FFF5FBFE790) = 0 0
__pthread_sigmask(0x1, 0x7FFF5FBFC08C, 0x0) = 0 0
select(0xC, 0x7FFF5FBFEAF0, 0x7FFF5FBFEA70, 0x0, 0x7FFF5FBFE790) = 0 0
__pthread_sigmask(0x1, 0x7FFF5FBFC08C, 0x0) = 0 0

[naseer]

Adding (setq-default dotspacemacs-excluded-packages '(guide-key) to .spacemacs didn't work

[syl20bnr]

Thank for trying my proposal. I'm eager to find where it comes from.

[naseer]

Thanks for looking at it :) let me know if there are more packages that are worth disabling - there are so many :)

[StreakyCobra]

Any news on this issue? Is this still the happening?

[naseer]

Yes - but the frequency is much lesser (once every 2-3 seconds) so it may be WAI

[fiveNinePlusR]

Probably should close this.

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