Francesco Potortì <[email protected]> writes:

> I forgot to add the best piece of information: with the overloaded
> system, once Octave starts regularly as an Emacs subprocess, top says
> that it consumes over 80% cpu, even when idle...

Did you check that the high CPU load is not caused by the leap second
bug in Linux?

 
http://blog.windfluechter.net/content/blog/2012/07/01/1481-100-cpu-load-due-leap-second

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