Re: file-remote-p being called too often?

[David Ponce]

> this is with emacs built from Git@HEAD:
> Discovered while profiling code in *scratch* via profiler-report:
>
> It looks like file-remote-p gets called from a timer (not started by e)
> and that that function shows up as being one of the ones eating cycles.

I wonder if the problem could be due to recentf if the option
`recentf-auto-cleanup' is enabled to cleanup the recentf list each
time Emacs has been idle during N seconds?

Because in this case, the function `recentf-cleanup' is called every N
seconds, in turn calling `recentf-keep-p' to checks if a file name
should be kept in the recentf list based on the `recentf-keep' option,
whose default value is the predicate `recentf-keep-default-predicate'
that uses `file-remote-p':

(defun recentf-keep-default-predicate (file)
  "Return non-nil if FILE should be kept in the recent list.
It handles the case of remote files as well."
  (cond
   ((file-remote-p file nil t) (recentf-access-file file))
   ((file-remote-p file))
   ((file-readable-p file))))

Regards