From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tyler Smith Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs slow away from office Date: Thu, 04 Feb 2010 17:08:54 -0500 Message-ID: <87fx5g64cp.fsf@eku238261.eku.edu> References: <871vh0oh97.fsf@lion.rapttech.com.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1265321855 11911 80.91.229.12 (4 Feb 2010 22:17:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 4 Feb 2010 22:17:35 +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 23:17:33 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 1NdA0y-00074G-JC for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 04 Feb 2010 23:17:33 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:58765 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NdA0x-0001DQ-25 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 04 Feb 2010 17:17:31 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Nd9tE-0007Zm-J7 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Feb 2010 17:09:32 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=47090 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Nd9tE-0007ZD-0P for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Feb 2010 17:09:32 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Nd9tD-00017E-6v for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Feb 2010 17:09:31 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:60241) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Nd9tC-00017A-T3 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Feb 2010 17:09:31 -0500 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Nd9t2-0000fQ-MC for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Feb 2010 23:09:25 +0100 Original-Received: from 157.89.133.36 ([157.89.133.36]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 04 Feb 2010 23:09:15 +0100 Original-Received: from tyler.smith by 157.89.133.36 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 04 Feb 2010 23:09:15 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 23 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 157.89.133.36 User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.90 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:A4EAzjnNU7AlbITNXjAx7mMocso= X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:71688 Archived-At: Tim X writes: > 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. 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