Re: emacs slow on dired renaming

[Robert Marshall <spam@capuchin.co.uk>]

On Sat, Apr 05 2014, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:

>> From: Robert Marshall <spam@capuchin.co.uk>
>> Date: Sat, 05 Apr 2014 12:09:42 +0100
>> 
>>  - call-interactively                                            1227  97%
>>   - dired-do-rename                                              1083  86%
>>    - dired-do-create-files                                       1083  86%
>>     - dired-create-files                                          962  76%
>>      - byte-code                                                  952  75%
>>       - dired-rename-file                                         766  61%
>>        - dired-rename-subdir                                      568  45%
>>         - dired-fun-in-all-buffers                                180  14%
>
> According to this, dired-rename-subdir, dired-rename-file, and
> dired-create-files took 70% of the time.  But I have no idea why.
>
> Did you try turning on garbage-collection-messages?
>

I didn't but have just tried it and there are no garbage collection messages

> If that doesn't give any clues, I guess the only way is to selectively
> disable portions of your ~/.emacs, to find which part causes this.
>
> Alternatively, try running "emacs -Q" for some time, and see if things
> get slower there as well.
>

I'm giving it a go with -Q and will report back - thanks!

Robert
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