On Tuesday 28 July 2009 11:25:34 Sam Liddicott wrote: > I'm editing a 146K Lyx document (with no pictures) and the typing speed > is dreadful.
That's a tiny document. > > Characters come out at about 1 character per second with top showing 94% > CPU used by Lyx. Interestingly, there was a similar symptom way back maybe 6 years ago, where someone used an n squared algorithm instead of n log n, or something like that, for wordwrapping. The developer found it easily and did one of those forehead slaps. You're not using LyX 1.2 or something like that, are you? What LyX version, what operating system, how much RAM on the system? > > The same instance of Lyx tabbed to a small document is very fast. > > Has anyone tips on speeding this up? > > - hmm a few hours later and a few lyx restarts and it's speeded up again... You have an intermittent. I hate those. Keep an eye on it, and keep your observation at peak performance. SteveT
