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Re: Emacs slow away from office
From: |
Tyler Smith |
Subject: |
Re: Emacs slow away from office |
Date: |
Thu, 04 Feb 2010 17:08:54 -0500 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.90 (gnu/linux) |
Tim X <timx@nospam.dev.null> writes:
> 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.
Out of curiosity, why would Emacs need to access the network during
general use, excepting the obvious cases of gnus and mail reading?
Thanks,
Tyler