gnuemacs over cablemodem has continuous packet traffic

gnuemacs over cablemodem has continuous packet traffic

[Gautam H. Thaker]

Hi,

I use gnuemacs over SSH over my cable modem. Emacs is run at my office 
and displayed on my home Linux machine's X server. Everything works 
great, but I notice that when gnuemacs is up there a steady ~ 10 
pkts/sec traffic over the cable modem. Ethereal shows these are SSH 
packets. As soon as I exit gnuemacs these go away.

I have tried things like not having mouse avoidance mode on, not 
displaying time or load in mode line, but still the background traffic 
persists.

How can  I make gnuemacs not have this much background traffic? Would 
"compression" help or does this only makes packets smaller but does not 
eliminate them? Just trying to learn if anyone else sees all this packet 
traffic.

I am use emacs version 21.2.2,  RedHat 7.1 with all the udpates.

Thanks.

Gautam

Re: gnuemacs over cablemodem has continuous packet traffic

[John Paul Wallington]

Gautam H. Thaker wrote:

>  I use gnuemacs over SSH over my cable modem. Emacs is run at my
>  office and displayed on my home Linux machine's X
>  server. Everything works great, but I notice that when gnuemacs is
>  up there a steady ~ 10 pkts/sec traffic over the cable
>  modem. Ethereal shows these are SSH packets. As soon as I exit
>  gnuemacs these go away.
>  
>  I have tried things like not having mouse avoidance mode on, not
>  displaying time or load in mode line, but still the background
>  traffic persists.

Have you tried turning the blinking cursor off ?

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John Paul Wallington