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 22 horribly slow over vpn/dsl Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2007 14:14:10 +1000 Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com Message-ID: <87r6ohq06l.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: sea.gmane.org 1181623253 31813 80.91.229.12 (12 Jun 2007 04:40:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2007 04:40:53 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jun 12 06:40:52 2007 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 4.50) id 1HxyBY-0001ED-14 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 12 Jun 2007 06:40:52 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HxyBX-0003x0-Ig for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 12 Jun 2007 00:40:51 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!news.astraweb.com!border2.newsrouter.astraweb.com!sn-xt-sjc-05!sn-xt-sjc-07!sn-post-sjc-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:U/y/GOphXl+geLes23KYLMId5uU= Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@supernews.com Original-Lines: 38 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:149322 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:44906 Archived-At: Mark Hood writes: > Mark Hood writes: >> I had been using Emacs 21.3 over a 1500/768 kbps DSL line through >> VPN to an X11 server running on Windows XP in my home office without >> a problem, but with the new version, it's horribly slow. Startup >> takes forever, and C-v takes about 2 seconds. > > It looks like the vertical scrollbars are the culprit for the 2 sec > page scroll. I turned them off and Emacs became usable again. > Startup still takes forever though. > > Apparently the GTK+ scrollbars in Emacs 22 are very heavyweight. The > Emacs 21 I was using was built with the X Toolkit scrollbars and it > works much better for remote X11 usage. > > Interestingly, the -D and --basic-display startup options don't seem > to have any effect on the scrollbars; Emacs starts up with a > heavyweight display always. > > I miss the lightweight scrollbars so I guess I'll have to build Emacs > 22 or 21 myself. I'll probably stick with 21 since it seemed to start > much faster. > > -- Mark You can build emacs 22 with the old X toolkit rather than GTK+, which should give about the same performance as you had with emacs 21. The other thing to consider would be to use one of the X compression utilities. When I had to run X over a slow connection, I found this made the connection very usable. I can't remember the exact name, but it was something like X differential compression protocol (xdcp?) or something similar. Tin -- tcross (at) rapttech dot com dot au