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On 11/10/2011 5:10 PM, Ryan Johnson wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I just installed a big mess of windows updates and rebooted, and ever
> since emacs seems to have trouble with subprocesses: when attempting to
> read mercurial revision info for a file or running make, it sometimes
> freezes for 5-10 seconds without doing anything at all (no disk, no
> cpu), then suddenly responds lightning fast as if nothing had happened.
> It doesn't happen every time, and I don't get any of the usual fork
> failure error messages (plus I just barely rebased to no avail).
>
> I'm perfectly willing to blame this on Windows, but does anybody have
> pointers on how I might diagnose the issue?

Have you checked the BLODA recently?  Have you disabled Windows Defender?

Ken


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