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From: graichen@sirius.physik.fu-berlin.de (Thomas Graichen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: emacs-19.28.0 takes forever to run...
Date: 11 May 1995 21:14:11 GMT
Organization: Freie Universitaet Berlin
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Tomek Piatek (Tomasz.Piatek@comp.vuw.ac.nz) wrote:
: hello people!
: I've got a PC with an AMD DX2-80, and 16Meg of RAM, 540Meg HD, running NetBSD
: 1.0 and X11R6. Recently I got a full binary distribution for emacs 19.28.0
: (with X11 support) but when I run it it takes forever before the actual window
: comes up on the screen. By "forever" I mean pretty close to a minute. This is
: obviously wrong behaviour, as on my friends DX2-66 it only takes a few seconds.
: Does anyone have any ideas why this is happening?
yes - i had the same problem - it was the following: emacs makes a
gethostbyname at startup - 10 times - and if you don't have a valid
/etc/hosts or nameserver - you have to wait that 10 tries - hope this helps
- t
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