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: Emacs slow away from home Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 17:45:17 +0200 Organization: Organization?!? Message-ID: <87fwy4ovzm.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: <4C73456B.9080307@smartchat.net.au> <8762z0sain.fsf@rimspace.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1291868197 5957 80.91.229.12 (9 Dec 2010 04:16:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2010 04:16:37 +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 05:16:33 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 1PQXvg-0006J9-25 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Dec 2010 05:16:28 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:45731 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PQXvf-0003yc-4j for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Dec 2010 23:16:27 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!kanaga.switch.ch!switch.ch!news.belwue.de!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!newsfeed.arcor.de!newsspool3.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:hBGdzJEJ4eJbUbB+hRzO2Du+59I= Original-Lines: 25 Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 24 Aug 2010 17:45:18 CEST Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: c35ec532.newsspool2.arcor-online.net Original-X-Trace: DXC=GkH; >1W5G6\\PS5Xo=M[RVA9EHlD; 3YcR4Fo<]lROoRQ8kF5MOK`al0oRZW@i2V_K?h=UdXGL[faXHe[ Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet-abuse@arcor.de Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:180930 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:76626 Archived-At: Ron House writes: > On 24/08/10 18:03, Daniel Pittman wrote: >> Ron House writes: >> >>> I have been using emacs on my laptop under linux for a long time, but I have >>> just noticed that if I open emacs when I am away from home, it takes something >>> like 2 minutes or more to start up. At home it is a second or two. >> >> DNS on your laptop is broken: Emacs is trying to resolve something, probably >> the FQDN to an address, or the address to an FQDN, that takes that long to >> time-out. > > Thanks Daniel, I know stuff will break when I go outside the limits of > the LAN, but as I said, all I use emacs for is to edit files. My > problem is, how do I turn off whatever it is trying to do (since I > won't be needing the results of its doings anyway)? It needs a unique system name to do proper file locking when editing possibly networked files, and to be able to reliably work with emacsclient. That's well within the "all I use emacs for is to edit files" department. -- David Kastrup