From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Why is Emacs so slow when used remotely? Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2010 08:54:28 +0200 Organization: Organization?!? Message-ID: <87d3s6s1y3.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: <76f5ba95-cc68-4326-a962-f515c0fb70cd@y31g2000vbt.googlegroups.com> <3ebca0e6-c698-44dd-a4fd-6166233f5eba@q26g2000vbn.googlegroups.com> <87ocbqsq3g.fsf@puma.rapttech.com.au> <87tylizq1x.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1291871621 17718 80.91.229.12 (9 Dec 2010 05:13:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2010 05:13:41 +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 Dec 09 06:13:37 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 1PQYoz-0001nL-5E for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Dec 2010 06:13:37 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:35905 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PQYoy-0001D5-B4 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Dec 2010 00:13:36 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsgate.cistron.nl!newsgate.news.xs4all.nl!news2.euro.net!82.197.223.103.MISMATCH!feeder3.cambriumusenet.nl!feed.tweaknews.nl!81.171.88.15.MISMATCH!eweka.nl!lightspeed.eweka.nl!npeer.de.kpn-eurorings.net!npeer-ng0.de.kpn-eurorings.net!newsfeed.arcor.de!newsspool1.arcor-online.net!news.arcor.de.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help X-Face: 2FEFf>]>q>2iw=B6, xrUubRI>pR&Ml9=ao@P@i)L:\urd*t9M~y1^:+Y]'C0~{mAl`oQuAl \!3KEIp?*w`|bL5qr,H)LFO6Q=qx~iH4DN; i"; /yuIsqbLLCh/!U#X[S~(5eZ41to5f%E@'ELIi$t^ Vc\LWP@J5p^rst0+('>Er0=^1{]M9!p?&:\z]|;&=NP3AhB!B_bi^]Pfkw User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:ziINcA4fM5dDGeFPUDZvxi2Yang= Original-Lines: 24 Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 22 Sep 2010 08:54:28 CEST Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: aee2dc6f.newsspool2.arcor-online.net Original-X-Trace: DXC=K<71=T3e?Q4nBOkdL^Lo7>A9EHlD; 3Yc24Fo<]lROoR18kF5MOK`al0oR:; C5[U 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:76719 Archived-At: pjb@informatimago.com (Pascal J. Bourguignon) writes: > Tim X writes: > >> A few things to try ... >> >> 1. turn off tooltip mode > > Yes. Anything graphic. > > >> 2. Try running with -nw to turn off X and only have a terminal UI and >> see what the performance is like. this will let you know if the problem >> is basic emacs or the X protocol stuff > > This is not useful, if you only work with text. The X protocol is not > significantly worse than any other terminal protocol to send over text. Font rendering/antialiasing/composition nowadays happens mostly at the client side if I am not mistaken. That makes the X protocol much worse even with text. -- David Kastrup