Thanks Nick. In your opinion, can I rule out the idea that I have too many headlines or to many TODOs since it is sometimes fast? Is there anything to suggest that I might reformat my files? Thanks, Susan On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 8:20 PM, Nick Dokos wrote: > Susan Addy wrote: > > > > 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. > > It probably does not swap then: you would know if it did :-) > The telltale sign is that the disk would be active all the time. > > Not sure what OSX has for monitoring: I usually use vmstat > to check things like this (or the gnome system monitor applet). > > In any case, it was a shot in the dark, since there is very > little light here :-) > > Nick > > > > >