Re: emacs-x11 takes 30-40 sec to open after upgrading to cygwin-1.7

[Bengt-Arne Fjellner <Bengt-Arne.Fjellner@ltu.se>]

On 2010-04-13 1:52 AM, Dan Tsafrir wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 00:39, Jon TURNEY<jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk>  wrote:
>    
>>      
>>> I've conducted a few repeated measurements and it looks as though
>>> setting LANG to be en_US somewhat reduces the start time of emacs-x11:
>>> instead of ~30 seconds with LANG=C.UTF-8, it take ~27 seconds
>>> LANG=en_US. While this is ~10% less, waiting 27 seconds for emacs to
>>> open still seems unreasonable.
>>>
>>> Any other ideas?
>>>        
>> Hmm....
>>
>> You don't have any emacs fonts being set via ~/.Xdefaults or ~/.Xresources?
>>      
> Actually, I do. However, following the suggestion of Ken Brown
>
>     http://www.mail-archive.com/cygwin@cygwin.com/msg107126.html
>
> I've invoked emacs with -Q (and also, just to make sure, removed my
> ~/.Xdefaults). It did not change anything: emacs still takes ~30
> seconds to open.
>
> What else?
> ---Dan
>
>    
A shot (well two) in the dark.

I have seen delays of 30 seconds when the resolver has problems. Is your 
dns configuration correct?
Do you have valid entries for localhost and your real hostname in 
windows/system32/drivers/etc/hosts?


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