emacs starts really slow

con · 2006-05-11 11:13:59

It takes a long time to start emacs, heres the output from 'time emacs --kill'

[conny@morticia ~]$ time emacs --kill

real    0m5.550s
user    0m0.185s
sys     0m0.031s

...and heres /etc/hosts

[conny@morticia ~]$ cat /etc/hosts
#
# /etc/hosts: static lookup table for host names
#

#<ip>   <hostname>   <hostname>
127.0.0.1               localhost.localdomain   localhost

# End of file

What is wrong? Emacs shouldnt take this long to start. oh yea computer is acer aspire 3003lmi.

Klette · 2006-05-12 15:20:05

[klette@Distraction ~]$ time /usr/local/bin/emacs --kill

real 0m1.991s
user 0m0.636s
sys 0m0.060s

No problems here ..

con · 2006-05-14 10:05:17

that's what I get on my Slackware install too, but not on Arch.

drakosha · 2006-05-15 08:35:43

Maybe it's a good idea to run strace and find out what takes the time... I'll do it if i find the time, or you can try it

JGC · 2006-05-15 09:05:17

Your localhost network interface is up?

con · 2006-05-16 06:15:10

lo is up and here is the output from strace:
students.turkuai.fi/~coholteg/emacs_strace.txt

JGC · 2006-05-16 07:55:21

Do you have an entry for 192.168.101.32 in /etc/hosts, or at least some way to get a reverse DNS record for it? emacs is trying to do quite some lookups for them, which can take 10 seconds to timeout (I guess ssh is also very slow from your machine)

con · 2006-05-17 06:44:20

192.168.101.32 is the DNS server at work. Should I add it to /etc/hosts? What should the line look like?

con · 2006-05-17 08:29:04

added <ip> dns.server dns to /etc/hosts no change

robertK · 2006-05-27 08:54:21

I have

real 0m12.757s
user 0m0.308s
sys 0m0.060s

did you solve this problem?

con · 2006-05-27 10:27:49

No I did'nt solve it....on thing though, when i run hostname -f i get hostname lookup failure or something like that.

robertK · 2006-05-27 15:18:40

Maybe a font problem?

When I remove

(set-default-font "-adobe-courier-medium-r-normal--18-180-75-75-m-110-iso8859-2")

from .emacs I have
$ time emacs --kill

real 0m0.570s
user 0m0.320s
sys 0m0.024s

con · 2006-05-27 15:32:33

OK i solved it... I had misspelled the hostname in /etc/hosts thanks for your help everyone

drakosha · 2006-05-27 16:51:53

can u please write exactly how your /etc/hosts looks like?

con · 2006-05-28 07:13:18

127.0.0.1   localhost.localdomain   localhost
192.168.101.55   morticia.addams   morticia # had spelled it moritcia

I had also set the hostname in rc.conf to morticia like this

HOSTNAME="morticia"

iphitus · 2006-05-28 07:35:50

if you're using network profiles for your network config, make sure the hostname entry is commented out there.

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