Re: It's almost 2016 and when (single-threaded) Emacs hangs, you gotta be smashing your keyboard!

[Michael Albinus]

"Loris Bennett" <loris.bennett@fu-berlin.de> writes:

> I mount remote directories via sshfs in my laptop so that I can access
> them both via a terminal and within emacs.  I experience hang-ups if
> I switch my connection from ethernet to wireless, which changes the IP
> address.  I haven't noticed other programs having problems when the
> network changes, but then again, I don't use that many other programs.
>
> As I understand it, sshfs is also implemented in userspace, so is there
> some other reason why tramp might be more robust with respect to changes
> in the network configuration?

Tramp uses timeouts when accessing remote connections. Maybe more
aggressive (shorter) timeouts than sshfs.

> Cheers,
>
> Loris

Best regards, Michael.