Re: Tasks with lots of logbook entries are very slow

["Peter Neilson" <neilson@windstream.net>]

On Wed, 26 Mar 2014 04:10:02 -0400, Pere Quintana Seguí  
<pere@quintanasegui.com> wrote:

> El 25/03/14 19:27, Marcin Borkowski ha escrit:
>> Dnia 2014-03-25, o godz. 16:00:01
>> Pere Quintana Seguí <pere@quintanasegui.com> napisał(a):
>>
>>> I log most of my work with org-mode. Some of my tasks are repetitive,
>>> this is, I do them weekly or daily (i.e. empty mail inbox). After many
>>> years, the logs are very long. As a consequence, marking these tasks
>>> as done is *very* slow.
>>>
>>> Is there a workaround that does not involver deleting the logs?
>>
>> Archiving?
>>
>
> No, archiving would'nt work, as I need the task every day.
>
> Thanks for the tip.
>
> Pere

Perhaps this will help:

Standard method for log maintenance outside of org is to rotate logs into  
archive. The current log is only for the current day (or month, week, or  
year). Other criteria, such as log size, can be used to trigger rotation.  
Rotation cuts off the current log, archives it, possibly deletes truly  
ancient logs, and starts a new current log. Look up the Linux logrotate  
command for further info. Here's one description:  
http://www.thegeekstuff.com/2010/07/logrotate-examples/