On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 2:44 PM, Richard Riley
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"Daniel J. Sinder" <
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> On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 9:30 AM, Buck Brody <
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> I'm finding that my remember templates are slow to load. I've got
> a lag of about three to four seconds. I know that doesn't sound
> like much, but it's kind of puts a kink
You mean when you want to enter any new remember item or only the first
one? Any delay is normally once only when org is initialised.
Another thing to look at which crucified my erc (irc client for emacs)
performance was flyspell - I had to remove it from my erc setup.
> in the workflow. I use GNU emacs on Windows. I also have cygwin installed, and I have noticed that the problem doesn't occur when using cygwin. Any ideas?
>
> For what it's worth, I've also had this problem for a while now. However, I *do* use emacs w/ cygwin:
> Windows XP (w/ Cygwin)
> GNU Emacs 23.2.1
> Org-mode version 6.36trans (release_6.36.453.g0cd4)
>
> I suspect (for no particular reason other than disdain for Windows) that it is related to poor file system (NTFS) access speeds. For example, maybe org is trying to open
> several files to look for TODO keywords and/or tags?
What makes you think ntfs would be a bottle neck? Bringing religious
wars into help discussions is rarely productive and better kept to the
advocacy groups ;) People use org on pretty much all mainstream OSen.
>
> Dan
Actually, I should have been more explicit -- I use emacs and org *exclusively* on Windows (via cygwin). In fact, for years now, I exclusively use Windows as far as operating systems go. However, not being an OS expert, but just a user, I am frequently frustrated by file access speeds. I have heard (just water-cooler talk) that as the registry gets bloated over time, NTFS file access slows, having something to do with frequent checks of the registry prior to file access. Originally, I didn't feel I understood the issue well enough to claim this as a legitimate reason in this forum. But, seeing your (over)reaction, perhaps I should have explained myself better.
Did I bring a religious war into the discussion? No, I most certainly did not. I didn't mention any other OS's, nor make comparisons between OS's. Rather, I suggested a possible cause (slow NTFS file access) for the problem that others and myself are seeing with org on Windows. I followed that with a question about whether org is trying to open several files when calling remember, to see if that would lead to a proper diagnosis of the problem.
How did you contribute to the conversation? I didn't bring up OS comparisons -- you did! Now I know org is used on all OSen. Thanks! If you have nothing to contribute to this topic, and can't help solve my problem, then I suggest you reserve your accusations for an appropriate forum.
Dan