From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Russ P." Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Why is Emacs so slow when used remotely? Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2010 16:20:24 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <76f5ba95-cc68-4326-a962-f515c0fb70cd@y31g2000vbt.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1291950388 23674 80.91.229.12 (10 Dec 2010 03:06:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2010 03:06:28 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Dec 10 04:06:25 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 1PQtJQ-0007iT-Fq for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Dec 2010 04:06:24 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:44205 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PQtJP-0002nC-Ho for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Dec 2010 22:06:23 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!y31g2000vbt.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 17 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 128.102.146.44 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1285024824 9185 127.0.0.1 (20 Sep 2010 23:20:24 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2010 23:20:24 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: y31g2000vbt.googlegroups.com; posting-host=128.102.146.44; posting-account=QXgf4wkAAADkKLOneY6DWJPpPelAjS0c User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686 (x86_64); en-US; rv:1.9.0.15) Gecko/2009101600 Firefox/3.0.15,gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:181392 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Thu, 09 Dec 2010 20:23:32 -0500 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:77247 Archived-At: As I explained a few days ago, I am trying to switch from XEmacs to Emacs so I can use Ensime (an Emacs-based IDE for Scala). I finally got my .emacs file debugged, but now I am finding that Emacs seems to be very slow when used remotely. When I work from home, I login from one Linux machine to another using ssh -X over a high-speed Internet connection, using my home machine as an X terminal for my work machine. I am using Emacs 23.2.1 on Red Hat. I am finding that opening a file or switching buffers by middle- clicking in dired or the buffer menu takes approximately 20-30 seconds. With XEmacs it takes less than one second. I hope I am doing something wrong that can be corrected, because I'll grow old sitting around that long every time I open a file or switch buffers. Any suggestions? Thanks. Russ P.