Subject: bug#20015: 25.0.50; Slow Emacs startup after recent TRAMP changes

From: Andreas Schwab <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 06 Mar 2015 20:17:59 +0100

Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]> writes:

>>> % time getent ahosts host.does.not.exist
>>> getent ahosts host.does.not.exist  0,00s user 0,00s system 0% cpu 30,013 total
>> Which means your system is misconfigured.
>
> But that's no excuse to impose such a 30s timeout on the user who did
> not actually do anything that would explicitly trigger this problem.

A working hostname lookup is a fundamental part of the system.

Andreas.

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