Re: remote X11/GNU emacs/ssh: Incredible slowness loading libs

[David Abrahams]

"David Kastrup" <David.Kastrup@t-online.de> wrote in message
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> Ok, since you say that it is whenever loading files: Hit C-x C-e after
> the following line a few times.  Is there a large delay consistently
> at some point?  Does it take longer than maybe a second? In that case,
> there may be a directory that is causing Emacs grief, by containing
> lots of contents, by being NFS-mounted and problematic, by pointing to
> something automounted but not available... things like that.
>
> (dolist (elt load-path) (message "%s" elt)(directory-files elt))

This doesn't happen when I'm doing "emacs -nw", so that can't be it.
It also does happen when I'm doing "emacs -q", so it's nothing I'm adding to
the load-path in my .emacs.


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