Hi, Emmanuel Beffara <m...@beffara.org> writes:
> Hello, > > De Nicolas Goaziou le 13/09/2023 à 14:39: >> Emmanuel Beffara <m...@beffara.org> writes: >> >> > I am facing a severe performance issue with TeX Live: compilation of any >> > document is an order of magnitude slower with a Guix installed system as >> > compared to a manual installation. Is anyone confronted to this >> > phenomenon, or >> > is there a way to fix this ? >> >> I also experienced a noticeable slowdown; I don't know how to fix it yet. > [...] >> A ls-R file is generated during profile creation (see >> `texlive-font-maps' function in "guix/profiles.scm") but it seems it is >> not read. >> >> It may be interesting to compare location and contents of the ls-R files >> in both installations. > > I tried to explore this but I see no reason why the ls-R files would be > ignored and I don't know how to explore this further. I do want to contribute > to a solution, because right now texlive is practically unusable in Guix. Have you tried tracing execution with strace? Maybe try 'strace -e file -f -s800 $texlive-cmd' and confirm whether the ls-R file gets used; if it does, you could then introspect said file to see if it provides what is being looked up or not. -- Thanks, Maxim
