Re: Emacs slow away from home

[Jason Rumney]

On Aug 24, 12:07 pm, Ron House <rho...@smartchat.net.au> wrote:
> I have been using emacs on my laptop under linux for a long time, but I
> have just noticed that if I open emacs when I am away from home, it
> takes something like 2 minutes or more to start up.
>
> At home it is a second or two.
>
> I can only think that this is somehow related to being out of range of
> our home network. Since I only use emacs to edit files, I can do without
> whatever internet services it is trying to access.
>
> Can anyone suggest how to fix this problem?

>From etc/PROBLEMS:

*** Emacs startup on GNU/Linux systems (and possibly other systems) is
slow.

This can happen if the system is misconfigured and Emacs can't get the
full qualified domain name, FQDN.  You should have your FQDN in the
/etc/hosts file, something like this:

127.0.0.1       localhost
129.187.137.82  nuc04.t30.physik.tu-muenchen.de nuc04

The way to set this up may vary on non-GNU systems.