From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Martyn Jago Subject: Re: GNU Emacs crashing on large Orgmode files Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2011 15:56:36 +0100 Message-ID: References: <2011-10-13T14-27-40@devnull.Karl-Voit.at> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:47749) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1REMiS-0001WU-1e for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Oct 2011 10:57:04 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1REMiM-0007E8-Sn for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Oct 2011 10:57:00 -0400 Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:47419) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1REMiM-0007Dh-HI for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Oct 2011 10:56:54 -0400 Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1REMiK-0000bi-QV for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Oct 2011 16:56:52 +0200 Received: from 88-96-171-138.dsl.zen.co.uk ([88.96.171.138]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 13 Oct 2011 16:56:52 +0200 Received: from martyn.jago by 88-96-171-138.dsl.zen.co.uk with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 13 Oct 2011 16:56:52 +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 Hi Karl Karl Voit writes: > * Marcelo de Moraes Serpa wrote: >> >> Hi list, > > Hi individual! > >> I love org and I think there's nothing like it out there, > > Ack! > >> but I'm considering using Evernote for reference notes, because my >> reference.orgfile has grown too big (4234k + lines). This makes >> the rendering of the file way too slow, and 2 times out of 10 >> emacs crashes because of that. > > Not exactly the topic you mentioned but as a side mark to crashes on > Mac OS X I want to add: > > I am trying to implement life-logging [1] with Org-mode and GNU > Emacs. Therefore I created [2]. Even in this early stage, it ends up > with >150.000 lines in approx. 30 Org-mode files. Most of them are > in «*.org_archive» files though. (Further performance information: > [3]) > > On my notebook I am using GNU Linux (Ubuntu 11.04) with GNU Emacs > 23.2.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.24.4). At home I've got > Mac OS X 10.5 with http://emacsformacosx.com/ (sorry, no detailed > version number since I am currently sitting in my office *g*). > > I never noticed *any* crash of Emacs using Org-mode on my Linux > machine. But on my OS X box, I notice crashes many times. Mostly > when navigating (vertically or horizontally) in the Agenda view. > > Maybe there is an (hidden?) issue with GNU Emacs on OS X (too). > Just for your information I use emacsformacosx port on Mac OS X 10.6.8, currently GNU Emacs 24.0.50.1 with 2GB RAM and 2.4GHz. On larger org files (over 13000 lines) navigation slows considerably, but I have never had Emacs crash, despite fairly heavy usage. However, I tend to maintain fairly compact files, through archiving. > 1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lifelogging > 2. https://github.com/novoid/Memacs > 3. https://github.com/novoid/Memacs/blob/master/FAQs_and_Best_Practices.org mj --- Org-mode version 7.7 (release_7.7.359.g18e67) GNU Emacs 24.0.50.1 (x86_64-apple-darwin, NS apple-appkit-1038.35) of 2011-08-21 on virtualmac.porkrind.org