Hi Nick,
   I'm not sure if the machine swaps - in fact I'm not sure what you mean.
However, I am on a macbook air running OSX 10.6.8, emacs 22.3.1, org 7.7. I
am the only user. I have 4GB ram, 2.13 GHz intel core 2 duo.
     Thanks for your help,
    Susan

On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 9:41 PM, Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com> wrote:

> Susan Addy <susan.e.addy@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Ok - I tried adding (setq font-lock-verbose nil), but there was no
> > change. It is still fast when I open emacs, and then some time later
> > (after I switch to another program for some time and back) it is
> > slow. Sometimes it will become fast again, and sometimes I recall (I
> > think) it has been slow right when I open it.
> >
> > Also, to clarify, the slow scrolling through headlines is in normal
> > view, not agenda view. It tends to be correlated with the agenda being
> > slow.
> >
>
> Could it be that emacs is swapped out after you leave it for a while and
> it takes a long time to get swapped back in? But if so, it would get
> faster soon thereafter. Does the machine swap at all?
>
> OS and version? org version? emacs version? do you share the machine or
> are you the
> only user on it? how much memory? CPUs?
>
> Nick
>