Re: w3m freezes / 99% cpu?

[Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka@xxxxxxx>]

>>>>> In [emacs-w3m : No.09906] Katsumi Yamaoka wrote:

>>> add a Lisp form like the following to your ~/.emacs-w3m.el file:
>>> (add-to-list 'w3m-command-environment '("GC_NPROCS" . "1"))

> The last resort is to put the following in your ~/.emacs file:
> (eval-after-load "w3m"
>   '(add-to-list 'w3m-command-environment '("GC_NPROCS" . "1")))

Jan Rychter wrote to me that both the workarounds never solved
the problem.  It is because the w3m command is called without
binding the environment variable "GC_NPROCS" to "1" while loading
w3m.elc in order to determine the default values of the variables
`w3m-type', `w3m-version', and `w3m-compile-options'.

Then I asked him to test the next one; to add the following form
to the ~/.emacs file (not the ~/.emacs-w3m.el file):

(let ((process-environment (copy-sequence process-environment)))
  (setenv "GC_NPROCS" "1")
  (load "w3m" nil t)
  (add-to-list 'w3m-command-environment '("GC_NPROCS" . "1")))

This aims to load w3m.elc, binding "GC_NPROCS" to "1", to determine
the default values of the variables that I mentioned above.  However,
Jan replied that it didn't do the trick, too.  I don't know why,
though.  Anyway, there seems currently no smart way to solve the
problem concerned with GC 7.0 on MacOS X.

P.S. How about this?

;; Add it to ~/.emacs (not ~/.emacs-w3m.el).
(setq w3m-command "~/bin/w3m")

Where "~/bin/w3m" is:
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
#!/bin/sh
PATH=/opt/local/bin:${PATH}; export PATH
GC_NPROCS=1; export GC_NPROCS
if test -z "$*"; then
  exec w3m
else
  args='';
  for i in $*; do
    if test -z "$args"; then
      args=\'$i\';
    else
      args="$args"' '\'$i\';
    fi
  done;
  eval "exec w3m $args"
fi
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
(In this case the real w3m executable is supposed to exist in
 "/opt/local/bin".)