From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: despen@verizon.net Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Why is Emacs so slow when used remotely? Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2010 21:40:53 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: <76f5ba95-cc68-4326-a962-f515c0fb70cd@y31g2000vbt.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1291875412 588 80.91.229.12 (9 Dec 2010 06:16:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2010 06:16:52 +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 07:16:48 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 1PQZo7-0004sJ-RJ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Dec 2010 07:16:47 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:46527 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PQZo6-0005Py-Vd for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Dec 2010 01:16:47 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 34 Injection-Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2010 01:40:53 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="m5Xp1AeG0rhUixp3PGRKOA"; logging-data="18084"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19Yb7fqnbtNc+RtYjXX3hRKlL5hb7Sq/zs=" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:OnJbJWBP9cfB1rtypulcpKnbz6A= sha1:h+oWLsv0+gxrTh7aM6BkPKgDPNs= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:181393 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:76781 Archived-At: "Russ P." writes: > As I explained a few days ago, I am trying to switch from XEmacs to > Emacs so I can use Ensime (an Emacs-based IDE for Scala). I finally > got my .emacs file debugged, but now I am finding that Emacs seems to > be very slow when used remotely. > > When I work from home, I login from one Linux machine to another using > ssh -X over a high-speed Internet connection, using my home machine as > an X terminal for my work machine. I am using Emacs 23.2.1 on Red Hat. > I am finding that opening a file or switching buffers by middle- > clicking in dired or the buffer menu takes approximately 20-30 > seconds. With XEmacs it takes less than one second. I hope I am doing > something wrong that can be corrected, because I'll grow old sitting > around that long every time I open a file or switch buffers. Any > suggestions? Thanks. Did you file a bug report? Emacs seems a little over-active in dired-mode. I'm running at least one emacs remotely too. Just hovering over a name in dired causes a packet storm. My first guess was that it was tooltip-mode so I toggled that off. Dired is still doing something during hover though in the mode line it tries to tell me which button to push. Each time it does that, I get a mini-packet storm. (I can see my packet monitor graph move up.) Maybe someone knows how to kill over active help in Dired?