> From: John J. Xenakis <hew...@jxenakis.com> > Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2015 16:48:55 -0500 > Cc: jxenakis...@gmail.com > > This comment reminds me that I used to have this problem when I was > using a VPN to connect to a remote network. > > I'm assuming that when you disconnect from the network, you still had > a buffer referencing a file on the network. So Emacs tries to > determine whether the file has been updated, and gets hung until the > disconnected network connection times out.
I think this issue might be described in etc/PROBLEMS; see the section named "A few seconds delay is seen at startup and for many file operations" there.
