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On 10/29/2009 9:28 AM, Rockefeller, Harry wrote:
> Emacs under X (all three: native cygwin Xwin, X-win32, and Exceed)
> hangs intermittently consuming 100% of available CPU as shown by running
> 'top'.
> 
> Here are some version stats:
> 
> $ emacs -version
> GNU Emacs 21.2.1
> $ uname -a
> CYGWIN_NT-5.1 harryr-pc 1.5.25(0.156/4/2) 2008-06-12 19:34 i686 Cygwin

Emacs 21.2 is very old.  My advice would be to upgrade cygwin to 1.7, 
which provides emacs 23.1.  If you don't want to do that, you can 
install emacs 23.0.92 under cygwin 1.5, but it's shown as an 
"experimental" version when you run setup.exe.

Ken

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