Re: Emacs slow away from office

[Tyler Smith <tyler.smith@eku.edu>]

Tim X <timx@nospam.dev.null> writes:

> Mark Carter <alt.mcarter@googlemail.com> 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. 

Out of curiosity, why would Emacs need to access the network during
general use, excepting the obvious cases of gnus and mail reading?

Thanks,

Tyler