Re: Emacs slow away from office

[Tim X]

Mark Carter <alt.mcarter@googlemail.com> writes:

> I have a works laptop containing GNU emacs 23.1.1. When I am at the
> office, connected to our office network, emacs works at normal speed.
> When I am at home, emacs takes a long time to load on the same laptop,
> and is often generally unresponsive, with long pauses in its
> operation. This happens consistently on every occasion. All my other
> programs work normally, as expected.
>
> What's going on?

My first guess would be DNS or network related problems. In the past,
there have been reports of emacs becoming slow when the network wasn't
configured correctly. I would verify that when not connected to your
office network you can

1. Do DNS lookups OK and without delay.
2. That 'localhost' is correctly configured and resolves correctly. 
3. Check for valid resolv.conf
4. check validity of /etc/hosts

Tim

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