From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Karl Voit Subject: Re: What HW/SW issues influence org/Emacs performance? Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2012 15:04:47 +0200 Message-ID: <2012-08-19T15-02-48@devnull.Karl-Voit.at> References: <2012-08-19T12-13-00@devnull.Karl-Voit.at> <8643.1345379569@alphaville> Reply-To: news1142@Karl-Voit.at Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:53519) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1T35Be-0005fB-HV for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Aug 2012 09:05:03 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1T35Bd-0004gP-DM for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Aug 2012 09:05:02 -0400 Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:52703) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1T35Bd-0004fq-6b for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Aug 2012 09:05:01 -0400 Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1T35Bc-0004xq-D6 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Aug 2012 15:05:00 +0200 Received: from mail.michael-prokop.at ([88.198.6.110]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 19 Aug 2012 15:05:00 +0200 Received: from news1142 by mail.michael-prokop.at with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 19 Aug 2012 15:05:00 +0200 List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org * Nick Dokos wrote: > Karl Voit wrote: > >> What do you think are the most important factors? >> >> - CPU speed (of one core) >> - type of CPU >> - # CPU cores >> - 32bit kernel vs. 64bit kernel >> - faster I/O (through HDD->SSD or even faster SSD) >> - choice of the file system (optimized for something? what?) >> - operating system >> - possible ELISP optimizations (are there any besides compiling?) > > How much memory do you have? Are you swapping at all? If yes, get more > memory. Sorry - I forgot to mention: 4GB of RAM (but only 32bit Kernel). I am not running much memory-intense things. Therefore I do have enough free RAM to avoid any swapping. -- Karl Voit