Re: emacs slow on dired renaming

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Robert Marshall <spam@capuchin.co.uk>
> Date: Sun, 06 Apr 2014 13:39:11 +0100
> 
> I've had 2 sessions of emacs running for the past 24 hours, one with -Q
> and I still see no slowdown there, the other run with --no-desktop in
> which I ran VM (which I use for email and where I originally saw a
> slowness problem - which *may* be related to the problem I then found in
> dired) there also there's no slowness. In the -Q session I did very
> little other than an occasional test of dired speed. In the other
> session I only ran VM and dired.
> 
> So it would appear to be either what I'm loading in .emacs.desktop or
> what I'm doing after that in that session which causes that symptom to
> gradually appear. I've never seen the problem with an emacs session
> which lasts less than c 2 hours.

I guess the next step is to look in your desktop file.