From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: autosave in the background Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2017 19:46:43 +0200 Message-ID: <86y3ruc1do.fsf@zoho.com> References: <877ezf5n5o.fsf@skimble.plus.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1499795275 30288 195.159.176.226 (11 Jul 2017 17:47:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2017 17:47:55 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jul 11 19:47:49 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dUzGF-0007UB-P7 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 11 Jul 2017 19:47:47 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48062 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dUzGK-0005f4-U6 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 11 Jul 2017 13:47:52 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:53300) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dUzFX-0005Ph-Rm for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Jul 2017 13:47:04 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dUzFS-0001fy-WA for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Jul 2017 13:47:03 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=57734 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dUzFS-0001ei-PZ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Jul 2017 13:46:58 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dUzFF-0004GP-RD for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Jul 2017 19:46:45 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 25 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Mail-Copies-To: never Cancel-Lock: sha1:xap6ZDloKcwJvY179IYgnxP+61E= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:113753 Archived-At: Sharon Kimble wrote: > I have a file that I'm working on which is > 3.3mbs in size, using org-mode, and whilst > I'm writing it *everything*, literally > everything, stops and pauses, becoming > unresponsive until its saved completely. > Hence my request. 1) It shouldn't take that long to save. Try this command: $ time head -c 3M < /dev/urandom > file On my R-Pi, probably the most stylish but admittedly a very slow computer compared to most laptops and desktops, on my system this take only 0.67s. 2) Don't use files that long! Go to the hardware store and ask for a shorter one... -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573