Marcelo de Moraes Serpa <celose...@gmail.com> wrote: > HI Nicholas, thanks for the reply, > > >How long does it take for emacs to show > >you the file? > > From the moment I press <enter> on the minibuffer to the moment the > whole file is rendered, it takes about 3 seconds. So, it does take > longer than I would expect. > > I have a 10-months old Macbook, and its specs are quite recent, check > out (from System Profiler): > > Model Name: MacBook > Model Identifier: MacBook6,1 > Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo > Processor Speed: 2.26 GHz > Number Of Processors: 1 > Total Number Of Cores: 2 > L2 Cache: 3 MB > Memory: 4 GB > Bus Speed: 1.07 GHz > Boot ROM Version: MB61.00C8.B00 > SMC Version (system): 1.51f53 > Serial Number (system): W89483Q78PX > Hardware UUID: 413C6EF2-12B3-5C38-A3CA-5A1F924867D7 > Sudden Motion Sensor: > State: Enabled > > So, the system is quite capable and is definetly should not be the bottleneck. >
It depends of course on what *else* you are running, but prima facie, swapping doesn't look to be the problem. Nevertheless, is a disk going wild while you are opening the file? > What I note though is that when I open this big org file and try to > naviagate around, the Emacs.app CPU usage goes up to 100% and then > gradually goes down to 0 as I stop giving any other commands. Check > out the screenshot below: > > http://i56.tinypic.com/123sbcj.png > Does this happen when you open *any* large file or only when you open the org file (and iirc, it was not a very big file: smaller than 1Mb?) > When I run "ps awlx | grep emacs", I get the following output: > > >501 5733 5578 0 31 0 2425520 168 - R+ s000 > 0:00.00 grep emacs > This is the wrong process: this is the line for the "grep emacs" command, not for emacs itself. Maybe try "grep Emacs"? I don't know what the emacs command name is on OSX. > ... > It is really unfortunate that org-mode runs like this on OSX. I can't > really think of anything else I could use to manage my personal > information and todo lists, but handling big orgfiles, as of now, is > really starting to be a blocker :-( > But is it org mode that runs like this? or something else? The elp stats showed that org-mode was pretty much in the noise. Nick _______________________________________________ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Please use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode
