Hi Susan, swapping on OS X is usually accompanied by the spinning beach ball (from hell).
Have you tried upgrading Emacs? I use Aquamacs (http://aquamacs.org/), there's also Cocoa Emacs (http://emacsformacosx.com/). Both are based on Emacs 23.3. Cheers, Viktor Susan Addy wrote: > Also - it does not usually get faster right after it gets slower. It will > stay slow for a while and sometimes get faster again later, but I haven't > noticed a definite pattern. > > > On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 7:44 PM, Susan Addy <susan.e.a...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > 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.do...@hp.com> wrote: > > > >> Susan Addy <susan.e.a...@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 > >> > > > >
