One more data point that is maybe related. Since it seems that the problem comes from some synch problem, it may be interesting what I just observed.
Due to a java server that was probably generating too much network load, I had a system where all four cores were used at 50% load by ksoftirqd. In this situation, launching octave from inside Emacs with run-octave often fails. The background process is created, and it even receives commands (I can close it by issuing a 'quit' in the inferior octave buffer) but it does not interact well with Emacs, specifically, Emacs does not show Octave's output. This behaviour is not deterministic: after trying an avaerage of two or three times, I get a working inferior octave subprocess. This defective behaviour disappears when I stop the java process and consequently the ksoftirqd processes. -- Francesco Potortì (ricercatore) Voice: +39.050.315.3058 (op.2111) ISTI - Area della ricerca CNR Mobile: +39.348.8283.107 via G. Moruzzi 1, I-56124 Pisa Fax: +39.050.315.2040 (entrance 20, 1st floor, room C71) Web: http://fly.isti.cnr.it -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
