Re: Tasks with lots of logbook entries are very slow

["Pere Quintana Seguí" <pere@quintanasegui.com>]

El 26/03/14 09:31, Peter Neilson ha escrit:
> 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/
> 
> 


I didn't understand your message. I thought you meant archiving the
task, but in fact you meant archiving the logs. That's what I've done.

thanks :-)