Why is emacs utilizing much memory and CPU on RHEL6?

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Issue

  • Emacs is consuming CPU/memory resources after it was
    1. started on a remote host and set to run in the background
    2. the ssh session to the remote host was terminated (i.e. 'kill <pid_of_sshsession>')

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6

  • emacs packages of version < 23.1-21.el6_2.1

  • emacs on remote host via SSH

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