Re: Emacs hangs sometimes for no reason

["briangpowell ." <briangpowellms@gmail.com>]

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Emacs periodically saves all files that you are visiting; this is called
auto-saving . Auto-saving prevents you from losing more than a limited
amount of work if the system crashes. By default, auto-saves happen every
300 keystrokes, or after around 30 seconds of idle time.

Suggest you try making your auto-save-interval variable much larger and see
if that helps

Also suggest making smaller .org files when practical

On Tue, Feb 11, 2020 at 7:33 AM Karl Voit <devnull@karl-voit.at> wrote:

> * Sebastian Christ <rudolfo.christ@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi list,
> >
> > in the last couple weeks (perhaps months?) Emacs hangs for no specific
> > reason for me. The single constant is, that when it hangs, it hangs
> > while I'm in org-mode. This occurs on multiple circumstance as
> >
> > - changing the outline structure by demoting and promoting headline
> > - when refiling
> > - re-schedule in agenda
> > - yanking
> > - perhaps more
>
> Same here with 3 different Emacs versions.
>
> > The strange thing is that it happens unpredictably, e.g. I re-schedule
> > 11 items without problems and the 12th one lets Emacs crash. Sometimes
> > it works for days without problems and then I promote a headline and
> > Emacs crashes. Very sad :(
>
> I did not have a crash here, though.
>
> > My actual question is, had someone had similar issues? Or is it just me
> > with my configuration?
> >
> > Perhaps someone can guide me on how I can find the root cause for this?
> > I pretty much lost here.
> >
> > Thanks in advance for any hints.
>
> In a discussion on Org/Emacs scalability issues, I got a hint[1] to use
> gcmh.el which indicates garbage collecting activity. My
> freeze-moments are almost entirely related to garbage collecting.
>
> You might want to try that.
>
> I've got no solution or workaround so far.
>
> [1]
> https://www.reddit.com/r/orgmode/comments/e9p84n/scaling_org_better_to_use_more_medsize_files_or/fcm5bsc/
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