From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tim X Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs slow away from office Date: Fri, 05 Feb 2010 07:52:52 +1100 Organization: Rapt Technologies Message-ID: <871vh0oh97.fsf@lion.rapttech.com.au> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1265319655 4416 80.91.229.12 (4 Feb 2010 21:40:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 4 Feb 2010 21:40:55 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Feb 04 22:40:42 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 1Nd9RK-0005nE-BJ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 04 Feb 2010 22:40:42 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:55519 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Nd9RJ-0001QS-RX for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 04 Feb 2010 16:40:41 -0500 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!usenet.stanford.edu!news.glorb.com!news2.glorb.com!news.glorb.com!news.astraweb.com!border1.newsrouter.astraweb.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.91 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:98d47cajtyG27VtMoLB/13u8jQ0= Original-Lines: 25 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 50fdeeb5.news.astraweb.com Original-X-Trace: DXC=c9ESMPogNa=5WGRN4JSiW2L?0kYOcDh@:^C Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:176616 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:71687 Archived-At: Mark Carter writes: > 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? My first guess would be DNS or network related problems. In the past, there have been reports of emacs becoming slow when the network wasn't configured correctly. I would verify that when not connected to your office network you can 1. Do DNS lookups OK and without delay. 2. That 'localhost' is correctly configured and resolves correctly. 3. Check for valid resolv.conf 4. check validity of /etc/hosts Tim -- tcross (at) rapttech dot com dot au