Hi Claus: I don't have an answer to your question about whether "muse-under-windows-p" really needs to be set to t or (windows-nt) on Windows. But here's my experience.
I have a total of 701 *.muse files (3.2MB) in my Planner-muse directory. That breaks down into 556 day pages and 145 project pages, most of which are used to keep notes on old jobs. I have (only) 42 unfinished tasks on my day page. My day pages go back as far as 2004.06.23.muse (when I started using planner under emacs-wiki -- I'd since converted over to muse), but with large gaps in between. When I invoked M-x plan this morning, it took 67 seconds before the day page was displayed. During that time, I get a lot of messages like this: C:/jrnl/Work/2007.08.27.muse and c:/jrnl/Work/2007.08.27.muse are the same file And like this: Wrote c:/jrnl/Work/2007.08.31.muse (I just noticed that the directory specified in muse-project-alist had an upper case drive letter, whereas the string in buffer-file-name has a lowercase c for the drive letter. I've just changed it, so I hope I'll see an improvement on Tuesday.) It took only four seconds for planner to mark a task on today's page complete. But that task belonged to only one project page. Both planner-raise-task and planner-raise-task-priority completed in the blink of a tired eye, but saving the project page afterwards took about five seconds. I'm "running" Windows XP Pro SP2, and my planner/muse files reside on my *local* drive. Network access to UNC paths on Win XP is big problem. Apparently Explorer bogs down and needs to be restarted every so often. I imagine access to a network drive would be slower than access to a local drive. Well that's all I have time for right now. -- Raymond Zeitler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -----Original Message----- Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 10:48:35 +0200 From: Claus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [Planner-el-discuss] Planner/Muse much slower under Windows To: [email protected] Hi Planner-Users, anybody else using Planner/Muse-mode on a Windows machine with a large number of plan-files? I'm using six project-pages and around 600 day-files (daily pages reaching back until 2005). OK, I should start archiving, but let's forget that for a moment. Now, under Windows, saving my daily planner page takes ~ 30 seconds, no matter how minor my changes were. That makes keeping the flow hard. On my Linux machine at home, the same action takes ~ 3 seconds. That huge difference made me fire up the profile and investigate: 1. Windows and Linux seem to be treated differently by Muse. If I'm not mistaken, under Windows all plan-files are always re-read from disk no matter what. 2. Just raising a Task priority on my day-page, then saving it results in > 34000 calls to "file-directory-p" on Windows. This function alone taking up 23 of the total 30 seconds of saving-time. For the fun of it I set "muse-under-windows-p" to nil on my Windows (XP) machine. As expected: Instant speedup! :) Now the question remains: How save it this?? Debugging function "muse-project-file-alist" suggested Muse is using the last-modification attributes now, which *looked like* it works under Windows. But alas, I'm not savvy enough in Elisp to be sure. I'm wondering if those 34000 calls to "file-directory-p" are really necessary? Thanks, Claus _______________________________________________ Planner-el-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/planner-el-discuss
