Hi Nick,
I have looked through the archives and tried what I found, including
the linum-mode and property-inheritance, which didn't affect the problem. I
also tried to change to the latest version of org mode and (I think) emacs,
which didn't help. I don't recall seeing the font-lock problem, though I
may have tried it earlier. I'll look for that one again. Most of the
archive questions had a slow agenda all the time, and not only sometimes.
I tried your commands below (thank you!) and have some interesting
results, but I don't know enough to interpret them. If I am interpreting
right, org-scan-tags sometimes takes much longer, but I have no idea why
it would be fast sometimes and slow others.
Here are the top 10 listings when operation is fast (about 3 seconds)
Function Name Call Count
Elapsed Time Average Time
============================================================ ==========
org-agenda 1
1.943013 1.943013
org-agenda-run-series 1
1.590022 1.590022
org-let2 2
1.1610179999 0.5805089999
org-tags-view 1
0.826727 0.826727
org-scan-tags 5
0.760431 0.1520862
org-let 2
0.426281 0.2131405
org-agenda-get-restriction-and-command 1
0.3529 0.3529
org-agenda-list 1
0.334261 0.334261
org-prepare-agenda-buffers 2
0.3264879999 0.1632439999
org-prepare-agenda 3
0.3113339999 0.1037779999
org-get-entries-from-diary 1
0.266385 0.26638
When agenda is slow:
Function Name Call
Count Elapsed Time Average Time
============================================================ ==========
org-agenda 1
12.133429 12.133429
org-agenda-run-series 1
11.768025 11.768025
org-let2 2
10.856247999 5.4281239999
org-tags-view 1
10.427989 10.427989
org-scan-tags 5
10.402578000 2.0805156000
org-let 2
0.908944 0.454472
org-finalize-agenda 3
0.8176239999 0.2725413333
org-agenda-get-day-entries 10
0.6845889999 0.0684588999
org-agenda-get-scheduled 10
0.4447109999 0.0444711
org-agenda-list 1
0.428234 0.428234
On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 2:58 PM, Nick Dokos <[email protected]> wrote:
> Susan Addy <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Thanks Bernt. I checked and Linum-mode is not enabled.
> >
> > Also, I using emacs 22.3.1 and org-mode 7.7 (if it helps).
> >
> >
> > On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 2:16 PM, Bernt Hansen <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > Susan Addy <[email protected]> writes:
> >
> > > Below is a list of my agenda command - maybe it is too long? When
> it
> > > is slow, it is slow no matter what TODO I am trying to compile.
> > >
> > > Any thoughts?
> > > Thank you!
> >
> > If you have linum-mode enabled you should turn that off. Others have
> > reported slow navigation when that is enabled.
> >
> > HTH,
> > Bernt
> >
> >
>
> There have been various discussions on agenda slowness in the past -
> check the mailing list for some guesses (linum-mode, font-lock, property
> inheritance, code compilation and perhaps others have been suggested as
> possible causes). Sometimes the guesses pan out, sometimes not.
>
> The most important thing you can do, imo, is to profile the code, first
> when it's behaving well and then when it's behaving badly.
>
> All you have to do is
>
> M-x elp-instrument-package RET org RET
>
> run your agenda command and then
>
> M-x elp-results RET
>
> to get the results.
>
> Nick
>
