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From: Christopher Browne <cbbrowne@acm.org>
Subject: Re: remote X11/GNU emacs/ssh: Incredible slowness loading libs
Date: 1 Oct 2002 00:40:35 GMT	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <anaqu3$arjl0$1@ID-125932.news.dfncis.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: anapjh$10r$1@bob.news.rcn.net

Oops! "David Abrahams" <david.abrahams@rcn.com> was seen spray-painting on a wall:
> I'm using xterm to launch emacs, but I'm confused by your question
> because I can't see how it's relevant. The slowdowns only occur when
> emacs isn't running in a terminal window.

There always was a "traditional 17 second pause" whilst Netscape
Navigator loaded when it ran an X request to do a (pointless and
spurious) list of every font available on the X server.

Perhaps there's something in the Emacs startup that is doing something
similar to this, requesting all fonts or some such thing, that would
lead to a big pause at start time.

I'm not sure that's the answer, but it is the sort of thing that would
be:
 a) Not totally obvious, and
 b) In keeping with the symptoms...
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  reply	other threads:[~2002-10-01  0:40 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 [this message]
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
2002-10-03 18:30     ` frobware inc

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