From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 30 2: 9:23 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from urania.westgate.gr (urania.westgate.gr [212.205.119.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 73DF037B4C5 for ; Mon, 30 Oct 2000 02:09:17 -0800 (PST) Received: (from charon@localhost) by urania.westgate.gr (8.11.1/8.11.1) id e9UA8fE17228; Mon, 30 Oct 2000 12:08:41 +0200 (EET) Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 12:08:41 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Orion Slevin Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: emacs starts very slow Message-ID: <20001030120841.A16470@urania.westgate.gr> References: <000a01c04256$6fe9fc40$ddda44d1@orion> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <000a01c04256$6fe9fc40$ddda44d1@orion>; from cuomo@cts.com on Mon, Oct 30, 2000 at 01:47:36AM -0800 X-PGP-Fingerprint: 3A 75 52 EB F1 58 56 0D - C5 B8 21 B6 1B 5E 4A C2 X-URL: http://students.ceid.upatras.gr/~keramida/index.html Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Oct 30, 2000 at 01:47:36AM -0800, Orion Slevin wrote: > > It takes emacs a long time to start up on freebsd. Its been > like that for every release (for me at least). What can I do > to fix it? > > Any help is much appreciated. Thanks Get more memory, perhaps? Emacs is a somewhat heavy program. You might be running short on memory, and it takes ages to load. - giorgos To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message