Re: xemacs 20.3 slow load

1998-02-09 Thread Gerald Wann
Hi- Many thanks to those who have commented thus far on the xemacs slow load post. Being relatively new to Linux, i am still slogging thru the process of analyzing why the load takes so long on my machine. In particular, i have just run an strace on the program as it loads, and it gives me about

Re: xemacs 20.3 slow load (follow up)

1998-02-09 Thread Gerald Wann
Hi - I just started up xemacs while connected to my ISP and it came up in under 3 seconds! The timeouts (there are 225 of them) i reported previously are apparently related to unsuccessful attempts to connect to my ISP while i am offline! Is there a way to instruct xemacs not to try and connect

Re: xemacs 20.3 slow load

1998-02-09 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Gerald Wann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi- Many thanks to those who have commented thus far on the xemacs slow load post. Being relatively new to Linux, i am still slogging thru the process of analyzing why the load takes so long on my machine. In particular, i have just run an strace on

Re: xemacs 20.3 slow load

1998-02-09 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Mon, 9 Feb 1998, Daniel Martin at cush wrote: Gerald Wann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If find particularly interesting any lines in the file where a timeout occurs. I have attached a snippet below, which is repeated many times in the load process. Could anyone shed light on just what is

Re: xemacs 20.3 slow load

1998-02-09 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Mon, 09 Feb 1998 10:40:18 EST, Jean Pierre LeJacq wrote: On Mon, 9 Feb 1998, Daniel Martin at cush wrote: Hmm... - it appears that xemacs is attempting to do a dns lookup, and that's the connection that's taking so long. If you had a bo machine, I'd ask you what your

Re: xemacs 20.3 slow load

1998-02-08 Thread John Goerzen
That doesn't sound right. You should have something like: 127.0.0.1 zeropoint.your.domain zeropoint 127.0.0.1 localhost (Also try flipping those lines around.) Also, what does hostname and hostname -f report? Gerald Wann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am experimenting with

Re: xemacs 20.3 slow load

1998-02-08 Thread Alexander Kjeldaas
On Fri, Feb 06, 1998 at 06:44:29AM -0500, Gerald Wann wrote: Hi - I am experimenting with xemacs 20.3 on debian linux 2.0.29 machine w/ AMD K6 200MHz / 32M RAM. It takes xemacs about a full minute to load in xwindows. Anyone else experience such a prolonged load wait, or is it just me (

Re: xemacs 20.3 slow load

1998-02-08 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Fri, Feb 06, 1998 at 10:26:48PM -0600, John Goerzen wrote: On my P166 (64 meg RAM) it takes about 20 seconds. Strange, on a BSDi P133 it takes about 5-10 seconds and that machine has less memory. I suspect our Xemacs is loading a bunch of unneeded stuff but I don't know for sure. You

Re: xemacs 20.3 slow load

1998-02-07 Thread John Goerzen
On my P166 (64 meg RAM) it takes about 20 seconds. Strange, on a BSDi P133 it takes about 5-10 seconds and that machine has less memory. I suspect our Xemacs is loading a bunch of unneeded stuff but I don't know for sure. You might want to mail our xemacs maintainer about this. Gerald Wann

Re: xemacs 20.3 slow load

1998-02-07 Thread Ben Pfaff
I am experimenting with xemacs 20.3 on debian linux 2.0.29 machine w/ AMD K6 200MHz / 32M RAM. It takes xemacs about a full minute to load in xwindows. Anyone else experience such a prolonged load wait, or is it just me ( 20.3 ;-)? Usually the problem with *really* slow emacs

Re: xemacs 20.3 slow load

1998-02-07 Thread Gerald Wann
I am experimenting with xemacs 20.3 on debian linux 2.0.29 machine w/ AMD K6 200MHz / 32M RAM. It takes xemacs about a full minute to load in xwindows. Anyone else experience such a prolonged load wait, or is it just me ( 20.3 ;-)? Usually the problem with *really* slow emacs

Re: xemacs 20.3 slow load

1998-02-07 Thread Ben Pfaff
I've tried the following (single) lines in my etc/hosts file - 127.0.0.1localhost OR 127.0.0.1zeropoint // where zeropoint is what is reported by hostname OR 127.0.0.1zeropoint localhost and noticed very little if any improvement in xemacs

xemacs 20.3 slow load

1998-02-06 Thread Gerald Wann
Hi - I am experimenting with xemacs 20.3 on debian linux 2.0.29 machine w/ AMD K6 200MHz / 32M RAM. It takes xemacs about a full minute to load in xwindows. Anyone else experience such a prolonged load wait, or is it just me ( 20.3 ;-)? Thanks Jerry -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: