On Tue, 18 Feb 2003, Angus Leeming wrote: > On Tuesday 18 February 2003 8:24 pm, Christian Ridderstr�m wrote: > > On Tue, 18 Feb 2003, Angus Leeming wrote: > > > Joao B. Oliveira wrote: > > > > I have used LyX in -dbg mode and checked the conversion process. It > > > > does not seem that LyX itself is doing things badly, but it calls > > > > convert for every image on the current screen and convert seems to > > > > be doing a bad job, taking up all memory and filling the swap area > > > > as well. > > > > Wouldn't 'nice' be useful in this situation? > > Sure. But not LyX's business. The user is free to write his own shell script > wrapper for convert/gs/whatever. Total freedom to set the nice value as > desired.
Oh, I agree... this was intended as a tip for Joao... (or people in general who suffer from this problem) It's funny though, this mail came directly to me (twice actually ?!?), but I'm guessing that you also sent it to the user's list? /C PS. I'm reading the list via a news. DS -- Christian Ridderstr�m, +46-8-790 91 37 http://www.md.kth.se/~chr Mechatronics lab, Dept. of Machine Design http://www.md.kth.se
