bug#20015: 25.0.50; Slow Emacs startup after recent TRAMP changes

[Andreas Schwab]

Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA> writes:

>>> % time getent ahosts host.does.not.exist
>>> getent ahosts host.does.not.exist  0,00s user 0,00s system 0% cpu 30,013 
>>> total
>> Which means your system is misconfigured.
>
> But that's no excuse to impose such a 30s timeout on the user who did
> not actually do anything that would explicitly trigger this problem.

A working hostname lookup is a fundamental part of the system.

Andreas.

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