John, I have a 17,000 file I work out of constantly in Org 7.8.10 with very little lag. Just another data point.
Thanks. On Wed, Aug 07, 2013 at 05:06:51PM -0500, John Hendy wrote: > Just an update: > - I reverted back to commit release_8.0.2-73-g9998f2 (early May) with > no change in behavior, so perhaps it wasn't anything other than > growing file size > - I just created archive files for work journal entries in 2011 and > 2012, storing them in separate archive files > - I'm now down to ~6500 lines, and lag is unnoticeable > > Perhaps there's some magical cutoff between 6,000 and 10,000 lines > that starts to really bog things down? > > > > John > > On Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 4:47 PM, John Hendy <jw.he...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 4:39 PM, Rainer Stengele > > <rainer.steng...@online.de> wrote: > >> Am 07.08.2013 22:25, schrieb John Hendy: > >>> Greetings, > >>> > >>> > >>> I just started experiencing major lag in Org-mode on my main work > >>> notes file, which is at about 10k lines. Is that getting up to the > >>> point where files get unwieldy? In googling around, I found a few > >>> suggestions: > >>> > >>> - Fiddle with linum settings > >>> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5229705/emacs-org-mode-turn-off-line-numbers > >>> > >>> I set linum-eager to off and linum-delay to on for the current setting > >>> via the customize interface and didn't perceive an effect. Any > >>> keystroke in my org file takes 1-2 seconds to appear. > >>> > >>> - Fontification? > >>> http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/45197 > >>> > >>> Comments there have files in the 5-137k line range and many say > >>> there's no/little lag unless running agenda commands. > >>> > >>> Any other suggestions? I use this file almost daily, mostly for > >>> reference, not adding... that's to say it hasn't grown majorly in the > >>> past even 3months (maybe a few hundred lines), but performance > >>> *definitely* wasn't anything like this until the last week or so. > >>> > >>> Thanks for any suggestions on improving or tracking down the source. > >>> In the mean time, I'm going to revert to a few git commits ago and see > >>> if that does anything for me. > >>> > >>> > >>> Best regards, > >>> John > >>> > >>> > >> Hi, > >> > >> just jumping on the bandwagon. > >> My one and only "biggest" issue with wonderful Orgmode is slow Emacs. > >> I run Emacs on i7 hardware with lots of memory and still have an Emacs > >> Orgmode that answers rather slowly. > >> Slow meaning it is just not snappy at all. Creating any aganda takes > >> several seconds which is a long time to wait > >> for the result. I already spent a lot of thought into how to optimise the > >> performance of my system, archiving and > >> splitting Org files, using sticky agenda etc. > >> I know there is no quick solution to the slowness because of the > >> limitation of threading in Emacs - I just wanted > >> to mention that very "unmodern" behaviour of Emacs running Orgmode. I have > >> to use Windows 7 so this makes it even > >> slower. I assume my environment would run faster on Linux. > >> > > > > I'm running Arch Linux 64bit on an HP EliteBook 8540w with an i7 and > > 8G of RAM. HD is 54% full at present. I agree that this shouldn't be a > > big burden, and whatever happened recently really made this unusable > > for me. Oddly, generating an agenda only takes a couple of seconds, > > which is plenty fast for me, even using search. > > > >> So yes, this is nothing more than something like a rant. > >> For me Orgmode is still the killer app in Emacs, it is just sad to have a > >> slow environment on quite modern > >> hardware with some bigger Org files. > >> My files are of size: > >> > >> $ wc *org > >> 124 1690 31670 file1.org > >> 1555 11829 97805 file2.org > >> 35022 262820 2314234 file3.org > >> 999 4968 105854 file4.org > >> 557 4029 30586 file5.org > >> 2523 20324 162165 file6.org > >> 2447 19974 139768 file7.org > >> 689 4703 36495 file8.org > >> 6789 58782 461211 file9.org > >> 53078 403126 3531142 total > >> > > > > $ wc *.org > > 23 90 867 bibliography.org > > 42 192 1756 clocking.org > > 2137 18286 122303 devel.org > > 9837 74994 494234 projects.org > > 1536 9692 77261 reference.org > > 1057 6673 48309 tf.org > > 14632 109927 744730 total > > > > projects.org is my most used file by far, and the biggest, but nothing > > compared to some of the folks posting on the link I showed who have > > 30-130k line files! > > > > > > John > > > >> Rainer > >> > ------------------------------------------------------------------ Russell Adams rlad...@adamsinfoserv.com PGP Key ID: 0x1160DCB3 http://www.adamsinfoserv.com/ Fingerprint: 1723 D8CA 4280 1EC9 557F 66E8 1154 E018 1160 DCB3