From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ken Goldman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Why is Emacs so slow when used remotely? Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2013 12:58:01 -0500 Message-ID: References: <76f5ba95-cc68-4326-a962-f515c0fb70cd@y31g2000vbt.googlegroups.com> <6f87ce15-a952-4009-af80-bb8804cfce58@googlegroups.com> <20131115222457.GA1094@hysteria.proulx.com> <528E6967.80003@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1385575121 26876 80.91.229.3 (27 Nov 2013 17:58:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2013 17:58:41 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Nov 27 18:58:45 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VljNr-0006SF-4F for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 27 Nov 2013 18:58:43 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37138 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VljNq-0005Y1-RL for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 27 Nov 2013 12:58:42 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42129) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VljNY-0005Xp-35 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Nov 2013 12:58:31 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VljNQ-0000aX-PQ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Nov 2013 12:58:24 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:40413) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VljNQ-0000aT-Iq for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Nov 2013 12:58:16 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VljNP-00069Z-L8 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Nov 2013 18:58:15 +0100 Original-Received: from yktgi01e0-s4.watson.ibm.com ([129.34.20.23]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 27 Nov 2013 18:58:15 +0100 Original-Received: from kgoldman by yktgi01e0-s4.watson.ibm.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 27 Nov 2013 18:58:15 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 18 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: yktgi01e0-s4.watson.ibm.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.1.1 In-Reply-To: <528E6967.80003@gmail.com> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:94677 Archived-At: On 11/21/2013 3:13 PM, Manuel Gómez wrote: > >> It may be true that the display code is very inefficient there. But >> I don't think it is that reasonable to expect an X program to be >> snappy fast over a high latency WAN connection. There are many >> issues with throwing a display remotely. Many programs have been >> written to try to optimize it. But it remains a hard problem. > > This is the only interaction that it is slow over this connection. Once > disabled, it runs smoothly. FWIW, I either: - Run emacs locally and access remote files using tramp - Run a vnc client/server and run in that window vnc is 'snappy', even with a remote connection through a VPN tunnel.