From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "David Abrahams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: remote X11/GNU emacs/ssh: Incredible slowness loading libs Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2002 06:42:24 -0400 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <87adlyaa39.fsf@blind-bat.une.edu.au> Reply-To: "David Abrahams" NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1033472155 10703 127.0.0.1 (1 Oct 2002 11:35:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2002 11:35:55 +0000 (UTC) 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 17wLJh-0002mT-00 for ; Tue, 01 Oct 2002 13:35:53 +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 17wLJx-0006vs-00; Tue, 01 Oct 2002 07:36:09 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!nntp.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!canoe.uoregon.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!nntp-relay.ihug.net!ihug.co.nz!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!newsfeed.gol.com!feed1.news.rcn.net!rcn!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: comp.emacs,gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 32 Original-X-Trace: UmFuZG9tSVaUUF9A2Y89qb8cQwV14heRX8hjSufIpu33E7CVmSvsSZfW9Kb7TZqx Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@rcn.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 1 Oct 2002 11:23:00 GMT X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 X-Priority: 3 X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Original-Xref: nntp.stanford.edu comp.emacs:74957 gnu.emacs.help:105583 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:2128 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:2128 "Tim Cross" wrote in message news:87adlyaa39.fsf@blind-bat.une.edu.au... > tfb@famine.OCF.Berkeley.EDU (Thomas F. Burdick) writes: > While this may not solve the problem, it might improve performance if > you also use something like dxcp to get some additional compression of > X protocol packets. also, since you are doing X over an ssh > connection, try playing with the ssh compression levels. Also try > executing other X applications and see if they have the same > slowness. I would also turn off any "features" which you don't > need/use like the toolbar. Also, make sure the fonts you are using are > available on both machines - sometimes you can get really slow > performance if the remote font specified for emacs is not available > locally or is available, but mapping takes additional time > etc. Although it might sound crazy, it may also be worth doing some > traceroutes to check where the packets are going to get to your > system. Hi Tim, While I appreciate that you've taken the time to make these suggestions, you clearly haven't read the foregoing thread, or you'd know that none of these things make any perceivable difference. -- ----------------------------------------------------------- David Abrahams * Boost Consulting dave@boost-consulting.com * http://www.boost-consulting.com