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* Ridiculously long (2 minutes) startup time for org agenda
@ 2018-02-18 12:38 JI Xiang
  2018-02-18 21:33 ` Thierry Banel
  2018-02-19 19:49 ` Nick Dokos
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: JI Xiang @ 2018-02-18 12:38 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: emacs-orgmode

Hello, first time posting on the mailing list. I encountered a problem 
where my agenda view (`C-c a a`) is taking ridiculously long (nearly 2 
minutes) to be shown the first time. From the second time onwards, the 
time is about 11 seconds, which is still very long by any means.

I wondered whether it has something to do with me having many files in 
the agenda list, so I tried to restrict the list to just one file. But 
still the first call to org-agenda-list took 12 seconds. This shouldn't 
be normal, right?

The following are shown in the `Messages` buffer during the call.

```
Press key for agenda command:
Restoring clock data
Loading /home/jx/.emacs.d/.cache/org-clock-save.el (source)...done
[yas] Prepared just-in-time loading of snippets successfully.
Importmagic and/or epc not found. importmagic.el will not be working.
Setting up indent for shell type zsh
Indentation variables are now local.
Indentation setup for shell type zsh
Using vacuous schema
Shell native completion is disabled, using fallback
```

I'm not sure why they would be there, especially the "using vacuous 
schema" and "shell native completion" part. Are the messages related to 
some `#BEGIN_SRC` blocks in the org files? I don't think I would ever 
need source code blocks when I'm viewing an agenda buffer?

I posted the question [on 
Emacs.SE](https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/30489/what-could-cause-org-agenda-to-take-very-long-to-start-up) 
and somebody suggested me use `elp-instrument` to perform a profiling. 
The results are as follows:

```

     Function Name, Call Count, Elapsed Time, Average Time

     org-agenda 1           116.6048159   116.6048159
     org-agenda-list 1           116.29427357  116.29427357
     org-agenda-prepare 1           109.15345470  109.15345470
     org-agenda-prepare-buffers 1           108.98258905  108.98258905
     org-agenda-get-day-entries 1288        7.0089191339  0.0054417074
     org-agenda-get-scheduled 1288        3.726361062   0.0028931374
     org-agenda-get-deadlines 1288        2.1579713230  0.0016754435
     org-agenda--timestamp-to-absolute 14544       1.1317418120  
7.781...e-05
     org-agenda-get-timestamps 1288        0.3673404320  0.0002852021
     org-agenda-get-sexps 1288        0.3438970410  0.0002670008
     org-agenda-get-restriction-and-command 1           0.310503975   
0.310503975
     org-agenda-get-blocks 1288        0.3083237900  0.0002393818
     org-agenda-prepare-window 1           0.157091024   0.157091024
     org-agenda-skip 8624        0.0781296389  9.059...e-06
     org-agenda-files 49          0.026090686   0.0005324629
     org-agenda-finalize 1           0.013325178   0.013325178
     org-agenda-mode 1           0.009848546   0.009848546
     org-agenda-finalize-entries 23          0.006178961   0.0002686504
     org-agenda-today-p 2604        0.0061717839  2.370...e-06
     org-agenda-skip-eval 16968       0.0052723920  3.107...e-07
     org-agenda-highlight-todo 112         0.0039840550  3.557...e-05
     org-agenda-format-item 112         0.0038309749  3.420...e-05
     org-agenda-new-marker 208         0.0031529359  1.515...e-05
     org-agenda-format-date-aligned 28          0.0007373120  2.633...e-05
     org-agenda-add-time-grid-maybe 28          0.0003810809  1.361...e-05
     org-agenda-fix-displayed-tags 112         0.000342384   3.057e-06
     org-agenda-fontify-priorities 1           0.00018465    0.00018465
     org-agenda-align-tags 1           0.000160119   0.000160119
     org-agenda-get-day-face 28          0.000156385   5.585...e-06
     org-agenda-get-category-icon 112         7.702...e-05  6.877...e-07
     org-agenda-span-name 23          4.4484e-05    1.934...e-06
     org-agenda-span-to-ndays 1           2.3496e-05    2.3496e-05
     org-agenda-fit-window-to-buffer 1           2.0877e-05    2.0877e-05
     org-agenda-time-of-day-to-ampm-maybe 21          1.124...e-05  
5.353...e-07
     org-agenda-set-mode-name 1           9.226e-06     9.226e-06
     org-agenda-mark-header-line 1           8.774e-06     8.774e-06
     org-agenda-reset-markers 1           4.829e-06     4.829e-06
     org-agenda-deadline-face 4           4.761e-06     1.19025e-06
     org-agenda-update-agenda-type 1           1.575e-06     1.575e-06
     org-agenda-ndays-to-span 2           1.174e-06     5.87e-07
     org-agenda-mark-clocking-task 1           7.16e-07      7.16e-07
     org-agenda-use-sticky-p 1           5.02e-07      5.02e-07
```

I'm not sure if that says much though.

Version information:

- Emacs: `GNU Emacs 27.0.50 (build 2, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 
3.18.9) of 2018-02-18`

- Orgmode: `Org mode version 9.1.6 (9.1.6-44-ge6f891-elpaplus @ 
/home/jx/.emacs.d/elpa/develop/org-plus-contrib-20180205/)`.

- I'm using [Spacemacs'](https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs) develop 
branch.

However, this problem happens on both Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and the latest 
MacOS. Actually it has persisted for a very long period of time so I 
doubt if it's related to any particular Emacs/Org version.

Any help would be much appreciated!

Best regards,

Xiang

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* Re: Ridiculously long (2 minutes) startup time for org agenda
  2018-02-18 12:38 JI Xiang
@ 2018-02-18 21:33 ` Thierry Banel
  2018-02-19 19:49 ` Nick Dokos
  1 sibling, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Thierry Banel @ 2018-02-18 21:33 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: emacs-orgmode

On 18/02/2018 13:38, JI Xiang wrote:
> Hello, first time posting on the mailing list. I encountered a problem 
> where my agenda view (`C-c a a`) is taking ridiculously long (nearly 2 
> minutes) to be shown the first time. From the second time onwards, the 
> time is about 11 seconds, which is still very long by any means.
>
> I wondered whether it has something to do with me having many files in 
> the agenda list, so I tried to restrict the list to just one file. But 
> still the first call to org-agenda-list took 12 seconds. This 
> shouldn't be normal, right?
>
> The following are shown in the `Messages` buffer during the call.
>
> ```
> Press key for agenda command:
> Restoring clock data
> Loading /home/jx/.emacs.d/.cache/org-clock-save.el (source)...done
> [yas] Prepared just-in-time loading of snippets successfully.
> Importmagic and/or epc not found. importmagic.el will not be working.
> Setting up indent for shell type zsh
> Indentation variables are now local.
> Indentation setup for shell type zsh
> Using vacuous schema
> Shell native completion is disabled, using fallback
> ```
>
> I'm not sure why they would be there, especially the "using vacuous 
> schema" and "shell native completion" part. Are the messages related 
> to some `#BEGIN_SRC` blocks in the org files? I don't think I would 
> ever need source code blocks when I'm viewing an agenda buffer?
>
> I posted the question [on 
> Emacs.SE](https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/30489/what-could-cause-org-agenda-to-take-very-long-to-start-up) 
> and somebody suggested me use `elp-instrument` to perform a profiling. 
> The results are as follows:
>
> ```
>
>     Function Name, Call Count, Elapsed Time, Average Time
>
>     org-agenda 1           116.6048159   116.6048159
>     org-agenda-list 1           116.29427357  116.29427357
>     org-agenda-prepare 1           109.15345470  109.15345470
>     org-agenda-prepare-buffers 1           108.98258905 108.98258905
>     org-agenda-get-day-entries 1288        7.0089191339 0.0054417074
>     org-agenda-get-scheduled 1288        3.726361062 0.0028931374
>     org-agenda-get-deadlines 1288        2.1579713230 0.0016754435
>     org-agenda--timestamp-to-absolute 14544       1.1317418120 
> 7.781...e-05
>     org-agenda-get-timestamps 1288        0.3673404320 0.0002852021
>     org-agenda-get-sexps 1288        0.3438970410  0.0002670008
>     org-agenda-get-restriction-and-command 1 0.310503975   0.310503975
>     org-agenda-get-blocks 1288        0.3083237900  0.0002393818
>     org-agenda-prepare-window 1           0.157091024 0.157091024
>     org-agenda-skip 8624        0.0781296389  9.059...e-06
>     org-agenda-files 49          0.026090686   0.0005324629
>     org-agenda-finalize 1           0.013325178   0.013325178
>     org-agenda-mode 1           0.009848546   0.009848546
>     org-agenda-finalize-entries 23          0.006178961 0.0002686504
>     org-agenda-today-p 2604        0.0061717839  2.370...e-06
>     org-agenda-skip-eval 16968       0.0052723920  3.107...e-07
>     org-agenda-highlight-todo 112         0.0039840550 3.557...e-05
>     org-agenda-format-item 112         0.0038309749  3.420...e-05
>     org-agenda-new-marker 208         0.0031529359  1.515...e-05
>     org-agenda-format-date-aligned 28          0.0007373120 2.633...e-05
>     org-agenda-add-time-grid-maybe 28          0.0003810809 1.361...e-05
>     org-agenda-fix-displayed-tags 112         0.000342384 3.057e-06
>     org-agenda-fontify-priorities 1           0.00018465 0.00018465
>     org-agenda-align-tags 1           0.000160119   0.000160119
>     org-agenda-get-day-face 28          0.000156385   5.585...e-06
>     org-agenda-get-category-icon 112         7.702...e-05 6.877...e-07
>     org-agenda-span-name 23          4.4484e-05    1.934...e-06
>     org-agenda-span-to-ndays 1           2.3496e-05    2.3496e-05
>     org-agenda-fit-window-to-buffer 1           2.0877e-05 2.0877e-05
>     org-agenda-time-of-day-to-ampm-maybe 21          1.124...e-05 
> 5.353...e-07
>     org-agenda-set-mode-name 1           9.226e-06     9.226e-06
>     org-agenda-mark-header-line 1           8.774e-06 8.774e-06
>     org-agenda-reset-markers 1           4.829e-06     4.829e-06
>     org-agenda-deadline-face 4           4.761e-06     1.19025e-06
>     org-agenda-update-agenda-type 1           1.575e-06 1.575e-06
>     org-agenda-ndays-to-span 2           1.174e-06     5.87e-07
>     org-agenda-mark-clocking-task 1           7.16e-07 7.16e-07
>     org-agenda-use-sticky-p 1           5.02e-07      5.02e-07
> ```
>
> I'm not sure if that says much though.
>
> Version information:
>
> - Emacs: `GNU Emacs 27.0.50 (build 2, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ 
> Version 3.18.9) of 2018-02-18`
>
> - Orgmode: `Org mode version 9.1.6 (9.1.6-44-ge6f891-elpaplus @ 
> /home/jx/.emacs.d/elpa/develop/org-plus-contrib-20180205/)`.
>
> - I'm using [Spacemacs'](https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs) 
> develop branch.
>
> However, this problem happens on both Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and the latest 
> MacOS. Actually it has persisted for a very long period of time so I 
> doubt if it's related to any particular Emacs/Org version.
>
> Any help would be much appreciated!
>
> Best regards,
>
> Xiang
>
>
>
>
Try typing
M-: (org-agenda-files nil 'ifmode)
This will tell you how many (and which) files are being processed.

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* Ridiculously long (2 minutes) startup time for org agenda
@ 2018-02-19  1:00 JI Xiang
  2018-02-26 16:29 ` Daniel Clemente
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: JI Xiang @ 2018-02-19  1:00 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: emacs-orgmode

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Hello, first time posting on the mailing list. I encountered a problem 
where my agenda view (|C-c a a|) is taking ridiculously long (nearly 2 
minutes) to be shown the first time. From the second time onwards, the 
time is about 11 seconds, which is still very long by any means.

I wondered whether it has something to do with me having many files in 
the agenda list, so I tried to restrict the list to just one file. But 
still the first call to org-agenda-list took 12 seconds. This shouldn’t 
be normal, right?

The following are shown in the |Messages| buffer during the call.

|Press key for agenda command: Restoring clock data Loading 
/home/jx/.emacs.d/.cache/org-clock-save.el (source)...done [yas] 
Prepared just-in-time loading of snippets successfully. Importmagic 
and/or epc not found. importmagic.el will not be working. Setting up 
indent for shell type zsh Indentation variables are now local. 
Indentation setup for shell type zsh Using vacuous schema Shell native 
completion is disabled, using fallback |

I’m not sure why they would be there, especially the “using vacuous 
schema” and “shell native completion” part. Are the messages related to 
some |#BEGIN_SRC| blocks in the org files? I don’t think I would ever 
need source code blocks when I’m viewing an agenda buffer?

I posted the question on Emacs.SE 
<https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/30489/what-could-cause-org-agenda-to-take-very-long-to-start-up> 
and somebody suggested me use |elp-instrument| to perform a profiling. 
The results are as follows:

|Function Name, Call Count, Elapsed Time, Average Time org-agenda 1 
116.6048159 116.6048159 org-agenda-list 1 116.29427357 116.29427357 
org-agenda-prepare 1 109.15345470 109.15345470 
org-agenda-prepare-buffers 1 108.98258905 108.98258905 
org-agenda-get-day-entries 1288 7.0089191339 0.0054417074 
org-agenda-get-scheduled 1288 3.726361062 0.0028931374 
org-agenda-get-deadlines 1288 2.1579713230 0.0016754435 
org-agenda--timestamp-to-absolute 14544 1.1317418120 7.781...e-05 
org-agenda-get-timestamps 1288 0.3673404320 0.0002852021 
org-agenda-get-sexps 1288 0.3438970410 0.0002670008 
org-agenda-get-restriction-and-command 1 0.310503975 0.310503975 
org-agenda-get-blocks 1288 0.3083237900 0.0002393818 
org-agenda-prepare-window 1 0.157091024 0.157091024 org-agenda-skip 8624 
0.0781296389 9.059...e-06 org-agenda-files 49 0.026090686 0.0005324629 
org-agenda-finalize 1 0.013325178 0.013325178 org-agenda-mode 1 
0.009848546 0.009848546 org-agenda-finalize-entries 23 0.006178961 
0.0002686504 org-agenda-today-p 2604 0.0061717839 2.370...e-06 
org-agenda-skip-eval 16968 0.0052723920 3.107...e-07 
org-agenda-highlight-todo 112 0.0039840550 3.557...e-05 
org-agenda-format-item 112 0.0038309749 3.420...e-05 
org-agenda-new-marker 208 0.0031529359 1.515...e-05 
org-agenda-format-date-aligned 28 0.0007373120 2.633...e-05 
org-agenda-add-time-grid-maybe 28 0.0003810809 1.361...e-05 
org-agenda-fix-displayed-tags 112 0.000342384 3.057e-06 
org-agenda-fontify-priorities 1 0.00018465 0.00018465 
org-agenda-align-tags 1 0.000160119 0.000160119 org-agenda-get-day-face 
28 0.000156385 5.585...e-06 org-agenda-get-category-icon 112 
7.702...e-05 6.877...e-07 org-agenda-span-name 23 4.4484e-05 
1.934...e-06 org-agenda-span-to-ndays 1 2.3496e-05 2.3496e-05 
org-agenda-fit-window-to-buffer 1 2.0877e-05 2.0877e-05 
org-agenda-time-of-day-to-ampm-maybe 21 1.124...e-05 5.353...e-07 
org-agenda-set-mode-name 1 9.226e-06 9.226e-06 
org-agenda-mark-header-line 1 8.774e-06 8.774e-06 
org-agenda-reset-markers 1 4.829e-06 4.829e-06 org-agenda-deadline-face 
4 4.761e-06 1.19025e-06 org-agenda-update-agenda-type 1 1.575e-06 
1.575e-06 org-agenda-ndays-to-span 2 1.174e-06 5.87e-07 
org-agenda-mark-clocking-task 1 7.16e-07 7.16e-07 
org-agenda-use-sticky-p 1 5.02e-07 5.02e-07 |

I’m not sure if that says much though.

Version information:

  *

    Emacs: |GNU Emacs 27.0.50 (build 2, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+
    Version 3.18.9) of 2018-02-18|

  *

    Orgmode: |Org mode version 9.1.6 (9.1.6-44-ge6f891-elpaplus @
    /home/jx/.emacs.d/elpa/develop/org-plus-contrib-20180205/)|.

  *

    I’m using Spacemacs’ <https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs> develop
    branch.

However, this problem happens on both Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and the latest 
MacOS. Actually it has persisted for a very long period of time so I 
doubt if it’s related to any particular Emacs/Org version.

Any help would be much appreciated!

Best regards,

Xiang

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* Re: Ridiculously long (2 minutes) startup time for org agenda
  2018-02-18 12:38 JI Xiang
  2018-02-18 21:33 ` Thierry Banel
@ 2018-02-19 19:49 ` Nick Dokos
  1 sibling, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Nick Dokos @ 2018-02-19 19:49 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: emacs-orgmode

JI Xiang <hi@xiangji.me> writes:


>     Function Name, Call Count, Elapsed Time, Average Time
>
>     org-agenda 1           116.6048159   116.6048159
>     org-agenda-list 1           116.29427357  116.29427357
>     org-agenda-prepare 1           109.15345470  109.15345470
>     org-agenda-prepare-buffers 1           108.98258905  108.98258905
> ...
>     org-agenda-ndays-to-span 2           1.174e-06     5.87e-07
>     org-agenda-mark-clocking-task 1           7.16e-07      7.16e-07
>     org-agenda-use-sticky-p 1           5.02e-07      5.02e-07
> ```
>

All the functions listed in the profile have an org-agenda prefix, presumably
because that's what you specified to elp. Can you repeat the profile but specify
an org prefix, so that *all* org functions are profiled?

-- 
Nick

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* Re: Ridiculously long (2 minutes) startup time for org agenda
  2018-02-19  1:00 Ridiculously long (2 minutes) startup time for org agenda JI Xiang
@ 2018-02-26 16:29 ` Daniel Clemente
  2018-03-12 12:29   ` JI Xiang
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Daniel Clemente @ 2018-02-26 16:29 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: JI Xiang; +Cc: Org-mode Org-Mode

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It can be many things. My emacs was taking 6 minutes to open for some
years, due to many reasons: a slow computer, many org files and very large
(>100 files, >25 Mb in total), lack of optimizations from my side and from
org-mode's side. I got used to it but it's a very bad experience, specially
when it crashes (and I made it crash a lot).
Now org-mode has improved and I disabled the slow parts, and it opens very
fast (<20 seconds). I still open large files.

The problem may not only be in org but in emacs (e.g. vc-mode can be slow),
though from the instrumentation you send, it doesn't seem to be the case
because it doesn't spend time opening the files.

org-agenda-prepare-buffers is the slow function, so it's the one you should
check. Try to use edebug in it (C-u M-C-x) and run it slowly to see in
which section it's the slowest. Then optimize that part. You'll see many
optimization there (ignore properties, etc.). I had to disable many slow
things, like <<<radios>>> (when you use a lot, e.g. 1000 per file, it's too
slow and even crashes), I think that these radio targets were the main
reason of the slowness.

Try creating a very large file and then check opening it, to see if it's
also slow.
Try things in a clean emacs (e.g. starting with: emacs -Q), because you may
have some other mode enabled that wants to do lots of things when you open
the files.

You can test many more things. But keep testing, because it's possible to
make it work faster.


On Mon, Feb 19, 2018 at 3:00 AM, JI Xiang <jimmyjx51@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello, first time posting on the mailing list. I encountered a problem
> where my agenda view (C-c a a) is taking ridiculously long (nearly 2
> minutes) to be shown the first time. From the second time onwards, the time
> is about 11 seconds, which is still very long by any means.
>
> I wondered whether it has something to do with me having many files in the
> agenda list, so I tried to restrict the list to just one file. But still
> the first call to org-agenda-list took 12 seconds. This shouldn’t be
> normal, right?
>
> The following are shown in the Messages buffer during the call.
>
> Press key for agenda command:
> Restoring clock data
> Loading /home/jx/.emacs.d/.cache/org-clock-save.el (source)...done
> [yas] Prepared just-in-time loading of snippets successfully.
> Importmagic and/or epc not found. importmagic.el will not be working.
> Setting up indent for shell type zsh
> Indentation variables are now local.
> Indentation setup for shell type zsh
> Using vacuous schema
> Shell native completion is disabled, using fallback
>
> I’m not sure why they would be there, especially the “using vacuous
> schema” and “shell native completion” part. Are the messages related to
> some #BEGIN_SRC blocks in the org files? I don’t think I would ever need
> source code blocks when I’m viewing an agenda buffer?
>
> I posted the question on Emacs.SE
> <https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/30489/what-could-cause-org-agenda-to-take-very-long-to-start-up>
> and somebody suggested me use elp-instrument to perform a profiling. The
> results are as follows:
>
>
>     Function Name, Call Count, Elapsed Time, Average Time
>
>     org-agenda 1           116.6048159   116.6048159
>     org-agenda-list 1           116.29427357  116.29427357
>     org-agenda-prepare 1           109.15345470  109.15345470
>     org-agenda-prepare-buffers 1           108.98258905  108.98258905
>     org-agenda-get-day-entries 1288        7.0089191339  0.0054417074
>     org-agenda-get-scheduled 1288        3.726361062   0.0028931374
>     org-agenda-get-deadlines 1288        2.1579713230  0.0016754435
>     org-agenda--timestamp-to-absolute 14544       1.1317418120   7.781...e-05
>     org-agenda-get-timestamps 1288        0.3673404320  0.0002852021
>     org-agenda-get-sexps 1288        0.3438970410  0.0002670008
>     org-agenda-get-restriction-and-command 1           0.310503975    0.310503975
>     org-agenda-get-blocks 1288        0.3083237900  0.0002393818
>     org-agenda-prepare-window 1           0.157091024   0.157091024
>     org-agenda-skip 8624        0.0781296389  9.059...e-06
>     org-agenda-files 49          0.026090686   0.0005324629
>     org-agenda-finalize 1           0.013325178   0.013325178
>     org-agenda-mode 1           0.009848546   0.009848546
>     org-agenda-finalize-entries 23          0.006178961   0.0002686504
>     org-agenda-today-p 2604        0.0061717839  2.370...e-06
>     org-agenda-skip-eval 16968       0.0052723920  3.107...e-07
>     org-agenda-highlight-todo 112         0.0039840550  3.557...e-05
>     org-agenda-format-item 112         0.0038309749  3.420...e-05
>     org-agenda-new-marker 208         0.0031529359  1.515...e-05
>     org-agenda-format-date-aligned 28          0.0007373120  2.633...e-05
>     org-agenda-add-time-grid-maybe 28          0.0003810809  1.361...e-05
>     org-agenda-fix-displayed-tags 112         0.000342384   3.057e-06
>     org-agenda-fontify-priorities 1           0.00018465    0.00018465
>     org-agenda-align-tags 1           0.000160119   0.000160119
>     org-agenda-get-day-face 28          0.000156385   5.585...e-06
>     org-agenda-get-category-icon 112         7.702...e-05  6.877...e-07
>     org-agenda-span-name 23          4.4484e-05    1.934...e-06
>     org-agenda-span-to-ndays 1           2.3496e-05    2.3496e-05
>     org-agenda-fit-window-to-buffer 1           2.0877e-05    2.0877e-05
>     org-agenda-time-of-day-to-ampm-maybe 21          1.124...e-05   5.353...e-07
>     org-agenda-set-mode-name 1           9.226e-06     9.226e-06
>     org-agenda-mark-header-line 1           8.774e-06     8.774e-06
>     org-agenda-reset-markers 1           4.829e-06     4.829e-06
>     org-agenda-deadline-face 4           4.761e-06     1.19025e-06
>     org-agenda-update-agenda-type 1           1.575e-06     1.575e-06
>     org-agenda-ndays-to-span 2           1.174e-06     5.87e-07
>     org-agenda-mark-clocking-task 1           7.16e-07      7.16e-07
>     org-agenda-use-sticky-p 1           5.02e-07      5.02e-07
>
> I’m not sure if that says much though.
>
> Version information:
>
>    -
>
>    Emacs: GNU Emacs 27.0.50 (build 2, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version
>    3.18.9) of 2018-02-18
>    -
>
>    Orgmode: Org mode version 9.1.6 (9.1.6-44-ge6f891-elpaplus @
>    /home/jx/.emacs.d/elpa/develop/org-plus-contrib-20180205/).
>    -
>
>    I’m using Spacemacs’ <https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs> develop
>    branch.
>
> However, this problem happens on both Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and the latest
> MacOS. Actually it has persisted for a very long period of time so I doubt
> if it’s related to any particular Emacs/Org version.
>
> Any help would be much appreciated!
>
> Best regards,
>
> Xiang
> ​
>

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* Re: Ridiculously long (2 minutes) startup time for org agenda
  2018-02-26 16:29 ` Daniel Clemente
@ 2018-03-12 12:29   ` JI Xiang
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: JI Xiang @ 2018-03-12 12:29 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Daniel Clemente; +Cc: Org-mode Org-Mode

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I finally found out the problem. I've been using Spacemacs and the 
`spell-checking` layer would automatically initiate flyspell on each org 
file, resulting in tremendous delay. If I disable flyspell from being 
automatically activated, the agenda is shown in a few seconds.


On 26.02.2018 17:29, Daniel Clemente wrote:
> It can be many things. My emacs was taking 6 minutes to open for some 
> years, due to many reasons: a slow computer, many org files and very 
> large (>100 files, >25 Mb in total), lack of optimizations from my 
> side and from org-mode's side. I got used to it but it's a very bad 
> experience, specially when it crashes (and I made it crash a lot).
> Now org-mode has improved and I disabled the slow parts, and it opens 
> very fast (<20 seconds). I still open large files.
>
> The problem may not only be in org but in emacs (e.g. vc-mode can be 
> slow), though from the instrumentation you send, it doesn't seem to be 
> the case because it doesn't spend time opening the files.
>
> org-agenda-prepare-buffers is the slow function, so it's the one you 
> should check. Try to use edebug in it (C-u M-C-x) and run it slowly to 
> see in which section it's the slowest. Then optimize that part. You'll 
> see many optimization there (ignore properties, etc.). I had to 
> disable many slow things, like <<<radios>>> (when you use a lot, e.g. 
> 1000 per file, it's too slow and even crashes), I think that these 
> radio targets were the main reason of the slowness.
>
> Try creating a very large file and then check opening it, to see if 
> it's also slow.
> Try things in a clean emacs (e.g. starting with: emacs -Q), because 
> you may have some other mode enabled that wants to do lots of things 
> when you open the files.
>
> You can test many more things. But keep testing, because it's possible 
> to make it work faster.
>
>
> On Mon, Feb 19, 2018 at 3:00 AM, JI Xiang <jimmyjx51@gmail.com 
> <mailto:jimmyjx51@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hello, first time posting on the mailing list. I encountered a
>     problem where my agenda view (|C-c a a|) is taking ridiculously
>     long (nearly 2 minutes) to be shown the first time. From the
>     second time onwards, the time is about 11 seconds, which is still
>     very long by any means.
>
>     I wondered whether it has something to do with me having many
>     files in the agenda list, so I tried to restrict the list to just
>     one file. But still the first call to org-agenda-list took 12
>     seconds. This shouldn’t be normal, right?
>
>     The following are shown in the |Messages| buffer during the call.
>
>     |Press key for agenda command: Restoring clock data Loading
>     /home/jx/.emacs.d/.cache/org-clock-save.el (source)...done [yas]
>     Prepared just-in-time loading of snippets successfully.
>     Importmagic and/or epc not found. importmagic.el will not be
>     working. Setting up indent for shell type zsh Indentation
>     variables are now local. Indentation setup for shell type zsh
>     Using vacuous schema Shell native completion is disabled, using
>     fallback |
>
>     I’m not sure why they would be there, especially the “using
>     vacuous schema” and “shell native completion” part. Are the
>     messages related to some |#BEGIN_SRC| blocks in the org files? I
>     don’t think I would ever need source code blocks when I’m viewing
>     an agenda buffer?
>
>     I posted the question on Emacs.SE
>     <https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/30489/what-could-cause-org-agenda-to-take-very-long-to-start-up>
>     and somebody suggested me use |elp-instrument| to perform a
>     profiling. The results are as follows:
>
>     |Function Name, Call Count, Elapsed Time, Average Time org-agenda 1
>     116.6048159 116.6048159 org-agenda-list 1 116.29427357
>     116.29427357 org-agenda-prepare 1 109.15345470 109.15345470
>     org-agenda-prepare-buffers 1 108.98258905 108.98258905
>     org-agenda-get-day-entries 1288 7.0089191339 0.0054417074
>     org-agenda-get-scheduled 1288 3.726361062 0.0028931374
>     org-agenda-get-deadlines 1288 2.1579713230 0.0016754435
>     org-agenda--timestamp-to-absolute 14544 1.1317418120 7.781...e-05
>     org-agenda-get-timestamps 1288 0.3673404320 0.0002852021
>     org-agenda-get-sexps 1288 0.3438970410 0.0002670008
>     org-agenda-get-restriction-and-command 1 0.310503975 0.310503975
>     org-agenda-get-blocks 1288 0.3083237900 0.0002393818
>     org-agenda-prepare-window 1 0.157091024 0.157091024
>     org-agenda-skip 8624 0.0781296389 9.059...e-06 org-agenda-files 49
>     0.026090686 0.0005324629 org-agenda-finalize 1 0.013325178
>     0.013325178 org-agenda-mode 1 0.009848546 0.009848546
>     org-agenda-finalize-entries 23 0.006178961 0.0002686504
>     org-agenda-today-p 2604 0.0061717839 2.370...e-06
>     org-agenda-skip-eval 16968 0.0052723920 3.107...e-07
>     org-agenda-highlight-todo 112 0.0039840550 3.557...e-05
>     org-agenda-format-item 112 0.0038309749 3.420...e-05
>     org-agenda-new-marker 208 0.0031529359 1.515...e-05
>     org-agenda-format-date-aligned 28 0.0007373120 2.633...e-05
>     org-agenda-add-time-grid-maybe 28 0.0003810809 1.361...e-05
>     org-agenda-fix-displayed-tags 112 0.000342384 3.057e-06
>     org-agenda-fontify-priorities 1 0.00018465 0.00018465
>     org-agenda-align-tags 1 0.000160119 0.000160119
>     org-agenda-get-day-face 28 0.000156385 5.585...e-06
>     org-agenda-get-category-icon 112 7.702...e-05 6.877...e-07
>     org-agenda-span-name 23 4.4484e-05 1.934...e-06
>     org-agenda-span-to-ndays 1 2.3496e-05 2.3496e-05
>     org-agenda-fit-window-to-buffer 1 2.0877e-05 2.0877e-05
>     org-agenda-time-of-day-to-ampm-maybe 21 1.124...e-05 5.353...e-07
>     org-agenda-set-mode-name 1 9.226e-06 9.226e-06
>     org-agenda-mark-header-line 1 8.774e-06 8.774e-06
>     org-agenda-reset-markers 1 4.829e-06 4.829e-06
>     org-agenda-deadline-face 4 4.761e-06 1.19025e-06
>     org-agenda-update-agenda-type 1 1.575e-06 1.575e-06
>     org-agenda-ndays-to-span 2 1.174e-06 5.87e-07
>     org-agenda-mark-clocking-task 1 7.16e-07 7.16e-07
>     org-agenda-use-sticky-p 1 5.02e-07 5.02e-07 |
>
>     I’m not sure if that says much though.
>
>     Version information:
>
>      *
>
>         Emacs: |GNU Emacs 27.0.50 (build 2, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+
>         Version 3.18.9) of 2018-02-18|
>
>      *
>
>         Orgmode: |Org mode version 9.1.6 (9.1.6-44-ge6f891-elpaplus @
>         /home/jx/.emacs.d/elpa/develop/org-plus-contrib-20180205/)|.
>
>      *
>
>         I’m using Spacemacs’ <https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs>
>         develop branch.
>
>     However, this problem happens on both Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and the
>     latest MacOS. Actually it has persisted for a very long period of
>     time so I doubt if it’s related to any particular Emacs/Org version.
>
>     Any help would be much appreciated!
>
>     Best regards,
>
>     Xiang
>
>     ​
>
>


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