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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!classic.iinet.com.au!news.uoknor.edu!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!gatech!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!usc!news.service.uci.edu!gordius!sequoia.jrs.com!not-for-mail From: mark@jrs.com (Mark Wadsworth) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: emacs-19.28.0 takes forever to run... Date: 12 May 1995 20:46:02 -0700 Organization: JRS Research Laboratories, Orange, CA Lines: 16 Message-ID: <3p1a1q$8sr@sequoia.jrs.com> References: <TOMEK.95May11220138@bats.comp.vuw.ac.nz> NNTP-Posting-Host: sequoia.jrs.com In article <TOMEK.95May11220138@bats.comp.vuw.ac.nz>, Tomek Piatek <Tomasz.Piatek@comp.vuw.ac.nz> wrote: >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? When this happened to me (on a Sun) it was because emacs was using scalable fonts. I removed them from my font path with xset -fp /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/ and it started coming up much faster. (I don't know if the path is the same on your system, but "xset q" will show you what paths are searched for fonts.) Mark Wadsworth mark@jrs.com