On 8/26/21 3:27 PM, Rich Shepard wrote:
Here's another new experience for me. When I kill the lyx process there
remains a file, for example lyxpreviewN17596.tex, which shows up in the
process list as 'latex lyxpreviewN17596.tex' and consumes 100% of the
CPUs
most of the time.
Root cannot find this file anywhere, and it persists after I close
lyx, even
when I did not open the compiled PDF or look at a preview within lyx.
I kill the process but haven't seen this before and would like to
understand
what might be behind this behavior.
Regards,
Rich
Do you by any chance have instant preview turned on in Tools >
Preferences > Look & Feel > Display. The presence of "preview" in the
file name suggests to me that LyX might have been compiling something
for instant preview. As far as the undead process, if LyX spawns a latex
/ pdflatex / whatever process to compile something and then you kill
LyX, the child process does not get killed automatically (at least in my
experience). You have to nuke it manually. I would expect the
lyxpreviewN17596.tex file to be stashed in the LyX temporary directory
for the parent document.
Paul
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