From: "David Abrahams" <david.abrahams@rcn.com>
Subject: Re: remote X11/GNU emacs/ssh: Incredible slowness loading libs
Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2002 18:16:19 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <an804g$8d3$1@bob.news.rcn.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: dmlu1k8cwsc.fsf@charanga.cs.wustl.edu
"Krishnakumar B" <kitty@cs.wustl.edu> wrote in message
news:dmlu1k8cwsc.fsf@charanga.cs.wustl.edu...
> On Sunday, 29 September 2002, "David Abrahams" wrote:
> > I've been doing some work on remote machines on the other U.S. coast
> > recently, and have noticed strange and horrible delays associated with
> > running GNU emacs in an X window. At first I thought the problem was the
> > speed of traffic associated with X11, but I don't think so any more. The
> > reason I say these delays are strange is that they seem to be worst when
> > emacs is loading libraries (especially during startup), or just when
it's
> > trying to respond to "C-x C-f" the first time. On some machines, it
takes
> > literally minutes to give me the "find file:" prompt. I don't see the
same
> > problems when running "emacs -nw" in an xterm (that just blasts along
like
> > crazy), so it can't be having trouble loading the libraries. I don't see
> > anything this bad when running Xemacs, so I doubt there's a real problem
> > with the X11 GUI stuff. Can't imagine what the problem is. Any ideas?
>
> Enable ssh compression. It helps a lot.
Makes absolutely no perceivable difference. However, there is an enormous
amount of network traffic going by, as I can see by the flashing light on my
NIC. This happens any time a new emacs mode (library) loads on the remote
machine. What in the world could it be accessing on my local machine? All
that handshaking, just as emacs starts up?!?
I heard some rumour that you can work around this with .Xauthority, but I'm
tired of diddling around with things I don't really understand, and I still
can't understand why there should be any difference between emacs -nw and
emacs when it comes to loading libraries.
still-baffled-ly y'rs,
dave
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-09-29 22:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-09-29 16:26 remote X11/GNU emacs/ssh: Incredible slowness loading libs David Abrahams
2002-09-29 20:21 ` Kai Großjohann
2002-09-29 20:52 ` David Abrahams
2002-09-29 23:00 ` Edward O'Connor
2002-09-29 23:31 ` David Abrahams
2002-09-30 9:11 ` David Kastrup
2002-09-30 12:04 ` David Abrahams
2002-09-30 12:48 ` David Kastrup
2002-09-30 13:52 ` David Abrahams
2002-09-30 19:10 ` Thomas F. Burdick
2002-09-30 20:14 ` David Abrahams
2002-10-01 7:31 ` Tim Cross
2002-10-01 10:42 ` David Abrahams
2002-10-01 11:36 ` David Kastrup
2002-10-01 12:15 ` David Abrahams
2002-10-02 7:42 ` Matthew Kennedy
2002-09-30 15:04 ` Heinz Rommerskirchen
2002-09-30 14:28 ` Kai Großjohann
2002-09-30 18:34 ` David Abrahams
2002-09-30 21:58 ` Krishnakumar B
2002-09-30 21:46 ` David Abrahams
2002-09-30 23:08 ` Krishnakumar B
2002-09-30 23:40 ` David Abrahams
2002-10-01 0:40 ` Christopher Browne
2002-10-01 0:13 ` David Abrahams
2002-10-01 2:28 ` Krishnakumar B
2002-10-01 2:57 ` David Abrahams
2002-10-01 15:06 ` Richard V. Molen
2002-10-01 15:25 ` David Abrahams
2002-10-01 16:59 ` Richard V. Molen
2002-10-01 16:43 ` David Abrahams
2002-10-01 18:10 ` Richard V. Molen
2002-09-29 21:26 ` Krishnakumar B
2002-09-29 22:16 ` David Abrahams [this message]
2002-10-03 18:30 ` frobware inc
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