Re: Strange delays when running remotely
David E. Sigeti <sigeti <at> lanl.gov> writes:
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Dear Bug Team!
When running Xemacs version 21 remotely (displaying on my local X
server) I have found that any multicharacter kills (such as kill-line,
kill-word, kill-ring-save, etc.) are extremely slow (maybe 15-30
seconds per kill). I only see this delay when I am running over a DSL
connection where the ping times to the remote system are on the order
of 100 milliseconds or more. When my local machine is on the same LAN
as the remote machine (much shorter ping times), I do not notice any
unusual delay in multicharacter kills. I also do not see this problem
when running Xemacs version 20.
My local X server when using the DSL connection is Exceed 3D running
under Microsoft Windows 98SE. When using the LAN, my local X server
is also Exceed 3D but running under Microsoft Windows 2000.
Yours,
David
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Dr. David E. Sigeti
Phone: 505-667-9239
E-mail: sigeti <at> lanl.gov
Surface mail: MS-F645, Los Alamos National Laboratory,
Los Alamos, NM 87545 USA
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I had the exact same problem when running xemacs on a remote machine. Painfully
slow kill-line function, yet fast yank... I fixed the problem by changing the
auto-save directories to save to /tmp
(this saves network traffic)
TRY:
;;; Auto-save
;;; Load the auto-save.el package, which lets you put all of your autosave
;;; files in one place, instead of scattering them around the file system.
;;; M-x recover-all-files or M-x recover-file to get them back
(defvar temp-directory (concat "/tmp/" (user-login-name)))
(make-directory temp-directory t)
; One of the main issues for me is that my home directory is
; NFS mounted. By setting all the autosave directories in /tmp,
; things run much quicker
(setq auto-save-directory (concat temp-directory "/autosave")
auto-save-hash-directory (concat temp-directory "/autosave-hash")
auto-save-directory-fallback "/tmp/"
auto-save-list-file-prefix (concat temp-directory "/autosave-")
auto-save-hash-p nil
auto-save-timeout 100
auto-save-interval 300)
(make-directory auto-save-directory t)
(require 'auto-save)
;;; Put backups in another directory. With the directory-info
;;; variable, you can control which files get backed up where.
(require 'backup-dir)
(setq bkup-backup-directory-info
`(
(t ,(concat temp-directory "/backups") ok-create full-path)
))
(setq make-backup-files t)
(setq backup-by-copying t)
(setq backup-by-copying-when-mismatch t)
(setq backup-by-copying-when-linked t)
(setq version-control t)
(setq-default delete-old-versions t)
;; -------------------------------------------------
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