Re: Release update

[Giorgos Keramidas]

On Mon, 22 Dec 2008 22:35:26 -0800, "Drew Adams" <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Does the disk LED flicker considerably during the long startups?
>
> No, not at all. I even closed my mail client, to minimise other disk accesses
> etc. No flicker, same delay.

Hi Drew,

Is there any possibility Emacs is trying DNS requests, i.e. to resolve
parts of user-mail-address or something related?  Startup delays are
often caused by waiting for DNS and then timing out after a while.

IIRC you are running the Windows build of Emacs.  Can you try wireshark
or another network monitoring tool, and watch for network activity while
Emacs is starting?