gnuemacs over cablemodem has continuous packet traffic

[Gautam H. Thaker]

Hi,

I use gnuemacs over SSH over my cable modem. Emacs is run at my office 
and displayed on my home Linux machine's X server. Everything works 
great, but I notice that when gnuemacs is up there a steady ~ 10 
pkts/sec traffic over the cable modem. Ethereal shows these are SSH 
packets. As soon as I exit gnuemacs these go away.

I have tried things like not having mouse avoidance mode on, not 
displaying time or load in mode line, but still the background traffic 
persists.

How can  I make gnuemacs not have this much background traffic? Would 
"compression" help or does this only makes packets smaller but does not 
eliminate them? Just trying to learn if anyone else sees all this packet 
traffic.

I am use emacs version 21.2.2,  RedHat 7.1 with all the udpates.

Thanks.

Gautam