From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Krishnakumar B Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: remote X11/GNU emacs/ssh: Incredible slowness loading libs Date: 29 Sep 2002 16:26:27 -0500 Organization: Washington University in St. Louis Sender: help-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1033335375 3806 127.0.0.1 (29 Sep 2002 21:36:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2002 21:36:15 +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 17vljZ-0000zG-00 for ; Sun, 29 Sep 2002 23:36:13 +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 17vljn-00052e-00; Sun, 29 Sep 2002 17:36:27 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!nntp.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!news-out.cwix.com!newsfeed.cwix.com!solaris.cc.vt.edu!news.vt.edu!news.cc.ukans.edu!stl-feed.news.verio.net!newsreader.wustl.edu!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: comp.emacs,gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 17 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: charanga.cs.wustl.edu Original-X-Trace: newsreader.wustl.edu 1033334791 19395 128.252.165.200 (29 Sep 2002 21:26:31 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@newsreader.wustl.edu Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2002 21:26:31 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 Original-Xref: nntp.stanford.edu comp.emacs:74903 gnu.emacs.help:105513 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:2057 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:2057 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. -kitty.