Bernd Harmsen wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> On Wed, Feb 14, 2001 at 07:02:04PM +0200, Dekel Tsur wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 14, 2001 at 05:04:44PM +0100, Bernd Harmsen wrote:
> > > LaTeX is very slow on my System, if called from Lyx 1.1.6fix1.
> > >
> > > With LyX
> > > 1. Load de_UserGuide.lyx
> > > 2. Click Menu View->Postscript
> > > 3. Wait 20 min.
> >
> > > Without Lyx
> > > 3. Run "latex de_UserGuide.tex" from the command line
> > > It takes 30 Seconds per run.
> > > 4. Call dvips
> > > It takes 15 Seconds.
> >
> > When you used LyX, dvips was generating pk fonts which is a process which
> > takes time. When you run latex manually, dvips didn't need to create the
> > fonts again. So, if you you will view the file in LyX again, it will also
> > take ~45 sec to process.
>
> That's not true. I have tested it several times and it always shows the same
> behaviour. Fonts seems only to be created the first time. Of course, I restarted
> lyx for every test.
>
> Any suggestions?
> Bernd
What does free say? You might be running into a swap problem.
Also check the size of your lyx binary. If it is not stripped, it will
be very large. lyx-1.1.6xx had -g turned on.
Garst
