From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Clausen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: high-latency, high-bandwidth link => slow startup Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2003 05:48:53 -0500 Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <81wudhhlyi.fsf@shasta.cs.uiuc.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1060772564 14278 80.91.224.253 (13 Aug 2003 11:02:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:02:44 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Aug 13 13:02:43 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19mtOs-0002Sd-00 for ; Wed, 13 Aug 2003 13:02:42 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19mtO8-0004tj-09 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 13 Aug 2003 07:01:56 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.1002 (Gnus v5.10.2) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:sBLWdbXghN4OA6voDoYMyasaJXM= Original-Lines: 24 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 128.174.246.68 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@uiuc.edu Original-X-Trace: vixen.cso.uiuc.edu 1060771527 128.174.246.68 (Wed, 13 Aug 2003 05:45:27 CDT) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2003 05:45:27 CDT Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:115864 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:11783 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:11783 Hi! I'm currently using emacs across the Atlantic on a fairly high-bandwidth line (cablemodem <-> Tn). My latency is high (~150msec ping fairly constantly). I find that while editing is good (sometimes with skipping, but good enough for e.g. writing mail), the startup time is horrible. It can take several minutes to start up Emacs + Gnus, whereas locally it takes a matter of seconds, and even on a text-only terminal of equivalent latency and lower bandwidth is it much faster. What is it about remote X that makes the startup so slow? Can Emacs be tweaked to work better in high-bandwidth/high-latency situations (which I would think would become more common as more people get high-bandwidth connections and remote use becomes more common)? I'm not doing graphics-heavy stuff, maybe font loading is a problem? Thanks in advance, -Lars -- Lars Clausen (http://shasta.cs.uiuc.edu/~lrclause)| Hårdgrim of Numenor "I do not agree with a word that you say, but I |---------------------------- will defend to the death your right to say it." | Where are we going, and --Evelyn Beatrice Hall paraphrasing Voltaire | what's with the handbasket?