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 <nicholas.dokos@hp.com> wrote:
Susan Addy <susan.e.addy@gmail.com> 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