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Re: Slow startup at various times

Subject: Re: Slow startup at various times
From: Ted Zlatanov
Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2008 09:01:50 -0500
Newsgroups: comp.emacs

On Fri, 15 Aug 2008 09:30:55 -0700 bvdp <bob@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: 

b> No, nothing like that which I can see. I've never done anything
b> resembling ftp or remote access in emacs.

Unplug the network cable and try the startup.  Does it hang?

b> And, an earlier suggestion to use strace will not work either since
b> this is a random thing.

Just start it in a separate terminal, and when Emacs hangs look at the
strace output.  Simple.

b> I'm really wondering if it could be a "cleanup" operation of one of
b> the cache files or something. But, I find it hard to believe that this
b> would take 30 to 60 seconds .... I do have all my backups going into a
b> single dir (/home/bob/.backups) and it appears to maintain about 500
b> files ... could that be it?

I doubt it unless you have highly customized code for cache management.

Ted

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