On Friday, 10 Dec 2021 at 12:23, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > I've seen some hints on the web that slow storage can also have an > impact, something to do with periodic flushing of some sqlite database > to persistent storage.
This is indeed a very likely explanation. The disk drives on this system are definitely on the slow side. I could upgrade but killing firefox periodically is an easier (and cheaper 😉) solution for me! 🙂 -- Eric S Fraga with org 9.5.1 in Emacs 29.0.50 on Debian 11.1