From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dirk-Jan C. Binnema Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs slow away from home Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2010 00:55:08 +0300 Organization: DJCBSoftware Message-ID: <20100825215510.0316339C742@djcbsoftware.nl> References: <4C73456B.9080307@smartchat.net.au> Reply-To: djcb@djcbsoftware.nl NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.6 - "Maruoka") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1282773546 8364 80.91.229.12 (25 Aug 2010 21:59:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2010 21:59:06 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Ron House Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Aug 25 23:59:03 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OoNzo-0003D3-8g for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 25 Aug 2010 23:59:00 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:37045 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OoNzn-0002U6-Ml for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 25 Aug 2010 17:58:59 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=56549 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OoNyO-0001HX-9Q for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Aug 2010 17:57:33 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OoNwF-0004Ba-N1 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Aug 2010 17:55:21 -0400 Original-Received: from vs11.mail.saunalahti.fi ([195.197.172.106]:34120) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OoNwF-0004B8-A1 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Aug 2010 17:55:19 -0400 Original-Received: from saunalahti-vams (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by vs11.mail.saunalahti.fi (Postfix) with SMTP id 78BB91A5061; Thu, 26 Aug 2010 00:55:14 +0300 (EEST) Original-Received: from vs11.mail.saunalahti.fi ([127.0.0.1]) by vs11.mail.saunalahti.fi ([195.197.172.106]) with SMTP (gateway) id A034D8755C9; Thu, 26 Aug 2010 00:55:14 +0300 Original-Received: from gw01.mail.saunalahti.fi (gw01.mail.saunalahti.fi [195.197.172.115]) by vs11.mail.saunalahti.fi (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B1D41A5061; Thu, 26 Aug 2010 00:55:14 +0300 (EEST) Original-Received: from djcbsoftware.nl (a88-114-92-181.elisa-laajakaista.fi [88.114.92.181]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by gw01.mail.saunalahti.fi (Postfix) with ESMTP id E7B5215133F; Thu, 26 Aug 2010 00:55:11 +0300 (EEST) Original-Received: from cthulhu.mindcrime.djcbsoftware.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by djcbsoftware.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0316339C742; Thu, 26 Aug 2010 00:55:10 +0300 (EEST) In-Reply-To: <4C73456B.9080307@smartchat.net.au> Mail-Reply-To: djcb@djcbsoftware.nl User-Agent: Wanderlust/2.15.9 (Almost Unreal) Emacs/24.0 Mule/6.0 (HANACHIRUSATO) X-Antivirus: VAMS X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:74808 Archived-At: Hi Ron, >>>>> On Tue, 24 Aug 2010 14:07:07 +1000, Ron House ("RH") wrote: RH> I have been using emacs on my laptop under linux for a long time, but I RH> have just noticed that if I open emacs when I am away from home, it RH> takes something like 2 minutes or more to start up. RH> At home it is a second or two. RH> I can only think that this is somehow related to being out of range of RH> our home network. Since I only use emacs to edit files, I can do without RH> whatever internet services it is trying to access. RH> Can anyone suggest how to fix this problem? RH> In case it is relevant, here is what emacs says about itself: RH> GNU Emacs 22.2.1 (i486-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars) RH> of 2008-11-10 on raven, modified by Debian Hmmm, possibly *some* package is doing some lookup on the network. A good to start to identify this package is to check what it's trying to connect to. Maybe you can try to start emacs using 'strace', and see what it's waiting for? What happens if you bring down the network interface? Good luck, Dirk. -- Dirk-Jan C. Binnema Helsinki, Finland e:djcb@djcbsoftware.nl w:www.djcbsoftware.nl pgp: D09C E664 897D 7D39 5047 A178 E96A C7A1 017D DA3C