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From: Krishnakumar B <kitty@cs.wustl.edu>
Subject: Re: remote X11/GNU emacs/ssh: Incredible slowness loading libs
Date: 30 Sep 2002 18:08:07 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <dmlit0njctk.fsf@samba.doc.wustl.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: anaj0j$bre$1@bob.news.rcn.net

On Monday, 30 September 2002, "David Abrahams" wrote:
> 
> No need to get nasty. It's hard to know what information people will find
> relevant.

Sorry if I sounded rude. Running an X application on a non-native X server
like Exceed always has problems related to fonts.

> > I have also had slowdowns with running Emacs 21 when X is enabled. This
> > happens when I try connecting to the remote machine using rxvt (shipped
> > with Cygwin).
> 
> I'm not using rxvt, to my knowledge.

What terminal are you using ?

> > Try switching your SSH client (for example use PUTTY's terminal
> > window).
> 
> Do you really think that's the culprit, considering that I have no
> problems with "emacs -nw" run in an xterm window?

Since I have exact symptoms that you posted and it works for me when I do
this, I suggested this. It's up to you.

> I also have no problems running emacs over ssh outside X11, in a regular
> cygwin window.

What does "outside" mean ?

> > I don't know what is causing the slowdowns in the case when I login
> > using plink -ssh <hostname>
> 
> plink?

It's the command-line utility that ships with Putty.

> > and then start Emacs as to using a separate terminal window. Maybe
> > something to do with tty initialization. FWIW, I tried using the
> > Windows command shell and it works like a charm.
> 
> The windows command shell always works, but usually not like a charm. What
> were you using it for?

To login to a remote machine and start Emacs on the remote machine and have
it display using an X server running on the local windows machine.

> > > 2. Wouldn't know how to use it if I could find it
> > > 3. Wouldn't know how to interpret the results
> >
> > tcpdump is too much for this unless you want to get to the root of the
> > problem.
> 
> I wouldn't mind, if it resulted in a useful bug report to the GNU emacs
> developers.

Again it's up to you. If you have the time, I am sure that the GNU Emacs
developers will appreciate the extra information.

-kitty.

  reply	other threads:[~2002-09-30 23:08 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 [this message]
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
2002-10-03 18:30     ` frobware inc

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