From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Matthew L Daniel Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs slow away from office Date: Fri, 05 Feb 2010 14:52:02 -0500 Message-ID: <4B6C76E2.2070400@gmail.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1265399562 20106 80.91.229.12 (5 Feb 2010 19:52:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 5 Feb 2010 19:52:42 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Mark Carter Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Feb 05 20:52:39 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 1NdUEH-0002Ft-Rv for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 05 Feb 2010 20:52:38 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:42565 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NdUEH-0007Ql-9A for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 05 Feb 2010 14:52:37 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NdUDu-0007Qa-6L for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Feb 2010 14:52:14 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=59869 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NdUDt-0007QS-Ra for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Feb 2010 14:52:13 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NdUDs-0008DM-Kv for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Feb 2010 14:52:13 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-yx0-f186.google.com ([209.85.210.186]:39508) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NdUDs-0008Ck-BS for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Feb 2010 14:52:12 -0500 Original-Received: by yxe16 with SMTP id 16so3931969yxe.26 for ; Fri, 05 Feb 2010 11:52:11 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=rzZ6JhP4YUuxKqB6/1YW41DF2oiJUNpG27oMrb37g1s=; b=jBIJJndsNi7iI0xSiE76PnrQSFkmuYPwgg9+uLzgkTkMGSTL+Fguus0IUpZsMVQ8fO tCXkPQXM2AJ4IaEWE8OE0t7VENhd3jfS+SjvtpFC+Xhaou64BGxflTXvRYArQPFIM1w7 XNxSBuMrdIuJwUembVdtuylF2fwoHLwKV2bEE= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=AEOxW0iRBXM54odlKxMI/RJyvFmn0mBTNJ1uFUB01RiCb2/yQGLdWIv6xhK2i8vwT+ 2aTuULnary7wqXzgcoVsTbUZyuPkr3/y0vNjDC3rXRkk0iUFKeFSCnOC4AIv+bNeqpCA Rxyrj8PD+LnMANM0HnifLJG3M6GaXKVMO/I7Y= Original-Received: by 10.101.106.19 with SMTP id i19mr848856anm.186.1265399531337; Fri, 05 Feb 2010 11:52:11 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from ?127.0.0.1? (c-76-17-47-95.hsd1.ga.comcast.net [76.17.47.95]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 14sm1020697gxk.2.2010.02.05.11.52.10 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Fri, 05 Feb 2010 11:52:11 -0800 (PST) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2pre) Gecko/20100119 Lanikai/3.1a1 In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) 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:71704 Archived-At: On 2:59 PM, Mark Carter wrote: > I have a works laptop containing GNU emacs 23.1.1. When I am at the > office, connected to our office network, emacs works at normal speed. > When I am at home, emacs takes a long time to load on the same laptop, > and is often generally unresponsive, with long pauses in its > operation. This happens consistently on every occasion. All my other > programs work normally, as expected. > > What's going on? > While you didn't mention what host OS you were using, it smells like a recent win32 problem I experienced. This is the solution that Jason Rumney proposed, and it seems to have made a major improvement for me: ;;; From: Jason Rumney ;;; To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org ;;; Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2009 16:15:12 -0800 (PST) ;;; Subject: Re: occasional pause (or stutter) on win32 emacs 23.0.95 (setq w32-get-true-file-attributes nil) If you want to read up on it, search the archives for "stutter". -- /v\atthew