Re: w3m freezes / 99% cpu?

[Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka@xxxxxxx>]

I've forwarded your message to the w3m-dev list <w3m-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
(a.k.a. the newsgroup gmane.comp.web.w3m.devel). Thanks for the investigation.

>>>>> In [emacs-w3m : No.09893] Pierre Baillargeon wrote:

> I've found that "export GC_NPROCS=1" before starting w3m on Mac OS X
> 10.5.1 avoids the problem. It seems to be a bug with dual core CPU
> (and possibly multi-processors too). By looking into the call stack
> and the boehm garbage collector source, I was able to identify that
> environment variable as being a factor in how the GC works. Solved the
> problem for me.

> --
> Pierre Baillargeon