Questions tagged [performance]
is for Emacs performance-related issues. Use additional tags to indicate which aspects of Emacs the performance issue is about: startup, navigation, search, screen updates, compilation, execution, debugging, and so on.
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Performance issue with inline image in an org file
I've been experiencing performance issues with displaying inline images in Org files. This happens only if an image is resized. Emacs stops being responsive and its CPU core gets busy to 100%. ...
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Emacs hangs every few seconds
I recently upgraded my system (nixos unstable), and I now run plasma6 (tried on both wayland and x11)… unfortunately, since the upgrade, emacs hangs for a few seconds really regularly while writing, ...
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magit slow with large files sitting around
I have six large .ipynb files in a git repo (100mb to 200mb each). They have diffs, but I don't want to check them in yet. The problem is that they seem to be the reason why magit becomes extremely ...
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projectile takes up 1 GB and makes everything slow
I added projectile a while back and it makes emacs bloat up memory from 25mb to about 1.16 GB and everything becomes very slow (loding emacs, saving files, opening new files, etc). I think it may be ...
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`tramp-verbose` setting has no effect on `*debug tramp*` buffer
Emacs 29.1, Tramp 2.6.0.29.1 I believe the log messages in the *debug tramp* buffer are slowing down TRAMP. With the tramp-verbose set to the default value of 1, my *debug tramp* buffer accumulated ...
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textual edits of R script drives up R process cpu load (ESS)
I'm using ESS (emacs speaks statistics) to edit R code. Once the R process is running, every textual edit in the buffer imposes substantial computational demand onto the R process (which I see top in ...
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Ignore tags during traversal in org-mode sparse tree match (performance)
I have a huge org file and I use the sparse tree function a lot to help me plan my weeks/months. (The agenda mode just doesn't do it for me; I really need to see it in the context of the tree.) ...
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Timing a while loop
I am running two embedded loops that might take a long time. Would like to time the inner while loop. What can I do?
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