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From: | Mohammed Imaduddin Humayun |
Subject: | bug#12587: 24.2; Delayed startup, unresponsive Emacs in MS Windows when netlogon services is running in a domain |
Date: | Mon, 08 Oct 2012 10:49:48 +0200 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:15.0) Gecko/20120907 Thunderbird/15.0.1 |
On 10/7/2012 1:02 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
Below is roughly the order of events after starting Emacs when netlogon is running: - 2~3 min - GUI shows up, Emacs welcome screen (*GNU Emacs*) is not loaded yet. Window elements (menus etc.) are unresponsive. - 6~7 min - Welcome screen shows up. Commands can now be run, GUI is responsive.Date: Sun, 07 Oct 2012 12:12:26 +0200 From: Mohammed Imaduddin Humayun <m_huma01@uni-muenster.de> CC: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> w32-get-true-file attributes is set to nil in my case. I tried setting it to local, non-nil and nil in turn with the following results: (i) with netlogon service - delayed Emacs startup as reported in the bug for each of the values (ii) without netlogon service - Emacs starts instantly in all casesAfter Emacs starts, do you see slowdown in file operations, like "C-x d" (Dired) for networked directories on the domain for which the netlogon service runs? Or is the slowdown limited to the startup? Also, your original report says "starting Emacs fails or is miserably slow". When it fails, what message(s) do you see to the effect of the failure? And when it is slow, how much time does it take for Emacs to eventually come up?
- Post startup, if w32-get-true-file-attributes is:(a) nil: file operations are responsive albeit 3-4x slower than when netlogon is not running i.e. not instantaneous. (b) default: extremely sluggish response. File operations (opening of files, filename autocomplete or dired etc.) each take 2-3 minutes or more.
By startup failure I imply the performance is so slow and unpredictable, one is unsure if Emacs will actually show up. No error message is displayed as such. I'm actually out of patience by this time.
Yes, the same problem occurs with the latest alpha build 'emacs-20120917-r110062'.I use the binary build which probably isn't meant for debugging. Also my experience in using gdb is limited, but if provided with a debug build and instructions on what to do, I can at least attempt.Debug builds of the recent development snapshots are available from here: http://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/windows/ First, please see if the same slow startup happens with the latest snapshot. If it does, I will give you instructions on what to do to investigate. Thanks
PS: A short screencast of the problem can be viewed here if it helps - http://youtu.be/G36HpkVt8i4Does the same happen if you start emacs.exe directly from the cmd prompt, instead of clicking on runemacs.exe?
Yes.
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