From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Joe Buehler Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs,gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs 21/X11 generating unbelieveable network traffic Date: Wed, 02 Oct 2002 08:33:47 -0400 Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <3D9AE7AB.3000903@hekimian.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1033661728 1076 127.0.0.1 (3 Oct 2002 16:15:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2002 16:15:28 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17x8dK-0000Gz-00 for ; Thu, 03 Oct 2002 18:15:26 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17x8dh-0000Kk-00; Thu, 03 Oct 2002 12:15:49 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 17wihU-0001xE-00 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Oct 2002 08:34:00 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 17wihR-0001wh-00 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Oct 2002 08:33:58 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.224.249]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17wihQ-0001wZ-00 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Oct 2002 08:33:56 -0400 Original-Received: from list by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17wih2-0005fV-00 for ; Wed, 02 Oct 2002 14:33:32 +0200 Original-To: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Received: from news by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17wigz-0005ei-00 for ; Wed, 02 Oct 2002 14:33:29 +0200 Original-Path: not-for-mail Original-Lines: 15 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 64.47.34.2 Original-X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1033562009 21723 64.47.34.2 (2 Oct 2002 12:33:29 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2002 12:33:29 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:3624 gmane.emacs.devel:8333 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.bugs:3624 David Abrahams wrote: > I've been trying to figure out why starting Emacs 21 on a remote machine > seems so painful. It is generating reams of network traffic that apparently > has nothing to do with graphics. I'm beginning to think that from the I upgraded our internal machines from 20.7 to 21.2 recently. Most of our development machines are on the other end of a 6 mbit link, and boy is emacs 21.2 slooooooow. A couple developers abandoned it for the older version. It works fine across our local 100 mbit network, so it does look to me like 21.2 is a network hog. Joe Buehler