Re: Slow response in GNU Emacs 23.4

[Bill]

On Thursday, February 9, 2012 at 6:51:48 PM UTC-5, Bruno Félix Rezende Ribeiro 
wrote:
> Hello.  I have successful used GNU Emacs 23.2 that comes with Debian
> Squeeze on my I32 machine.  Yesterday I decided to download the latest
> release from gnu.org, GNU Emacs 23.4.  Then I built it with Athena
> Toolkit and with -O3 gcc flag.  Now Emacs works wonderful except by one
> thing: its response time is very high.  It takes a half of second to
> notice that I press a key.  Does anyone know what could be a possible
> source of this problem?
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> PS:
> 
> Some useful information:
> 
> In GNU Emacs 23.4.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars)
>  of 2012-02-08 on felix-laptop
> Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.10707000
> configured using `configure  '--with-x-toolkit=athena' 
> '--with-crt-dir=/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu' 'CFLAGS=-O3''
> 
> -- 
> Bruno Félix Rezende Ribeiro (oitofelix)
> 
> Ps: Please, let me know my english errors
> 
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just restarted emacs using -nw and the problem went away; this is on Centos 7 
VM; No issue on Centos 6.x; something changed between the centos versions in X;