Re: [O] GNU Emacs crashing on large Orgmode files

[Martyn Jago]

Hi Karl

Karl Voit <address@hidden> writes:

> * Marcelo de Moraes Serpa <address@hidden> 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
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