From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ryan Wersal Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Emacs launches excruciatingly slowly Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2011 18:24:55 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1320258625 18717 80.91.229.12 (2 Nov 2011 18:30:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2011 18:30:25 +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 02 19:30:21 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RLfZr-0008V6-1C for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 02 Nov 2011 19:30:19 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45057 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RLfZq-0003C7-HH for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 02 Nov 2011 14:30:18 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:53691) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RLfZl-0003Bq-3N for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Nov 2011 14:30:14 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RLfZj-0002SQ-Hd for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Nov 2011 14:30:13 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:33292) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RLfZj-0002Rp-Ax for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Nov 2011 14:30:11 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RLfZf-0008QF-Bd for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Nov 2011 19:30:07 +0100 Original-Received: from host-82-12-111-24-static.midco.net ([host-82-12-111-24-static.midco.net]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 02 Nov 2011 19:30:07 +0100 Original-Received: from ryan by host-82-12-111-24-static.midco.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 02 Nov 2011 19:30:07 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 30 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: sea.gmane.org User-Agent: Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) X-Loom-IP: 24.111.12.82 (Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1) AppleWebKit/535.2 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/15.0.874.106 Safari/535.2) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 80.91.229.12 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:82731 Archived-At: I've been utilizing Emacs at work for over a month now and have had a very pleasant experience so far. The launch time has traditionally been south of 5 seconds even with my admittedly non-optimized .emacs file. But that all changed last Thursday. Something happened that caused the startup time to skyrocket to a frankly unbelievable 43 minutes. I wish I was kidding. I have already tried launching Emacs without a config file. This yielded an approximately 7 minute or so start up time. Googling has turned up several posts regarding Emacs being slow due to not being able to determine it's host's FQDN. To this end I have disconnected myself from my work's network (unplugging the ethernet cable itself and also disabling the adapter from the OS). This resulted in normal load times (sub 5 seconds). This appears to be the source of the issue, but I have no idea where to begin looking to solve the problem itself. Additional info: Windows 7 Professional 32bit running GNU Emacs 23.3. Any idea where to begin on remedying this situation? (Potentially more details can be found at my original post on http://superuser.com/questions/353201/emacs-launches-excruciatingly-slowly) Thanks in advance for the assistance, Ryan Wersal