Re: Lilypond hogging a processor and slowing down
Thanks Anders and SoundFromSound for this advice. It worked fine, and the simple one-bar file is now down to 0.8 seconds which is far more civilised. All the best, Peter mailto:lilyp...@ptoye.com www.ptoye.com___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
Re: Lilypond hogging a processor and slowing down
Anders Eriksson wrote > One thing that can take a lot of time is building Font database. > > There seems to be a "bug" in Lilypond on Windows so that the font > database is created every time! * > A workaround is to delete the directory > > %homepath%\ .lilypond-fonts.cache-2 * > > The first time you Engrave it create the font database, but the next > time it's already done... > > // Anders Anders, that fixed my slow engraving speeds on Windows 10 several times in the past, great advice!! - composer | sound designer | asmr artist LilyPond Tutorials (for beginners) --> http://bit.ly/bcl-lilypond -- View this message in context: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/Lilypond-hogging-a-processor-and-slowing-down-tp200149p200158.html Sent from the User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
Re: Lilypond hogging a processor and slowing down
ptoye wrote > * > Windows 7. LP 2.19.52 * > > - > > In the last few days LP has slowed right down when using Frescobaldi - > engraving a one-bar snippet took 25 seconds! And it was completely hogging > one processor - 24.9% utilisation on a 4-processor machine. > > Any ideas? > > Peter > mailto: > lilypond@ > www.ptoye.com Peter, One core? 25% /usage/? That's really not a problem for any modern / quad-core system. That's nothing. It shouldn't cause any instability on the overall computer. Now, are you experiencing slow /engraving/ times? That's a bit different... On Windows, I've found that rebuilding the font cache does indeed "fix" the "slow LilyPond engraving" issue that's crept up from time to time. Not an issue on GNU/Linux machines in my experience. It's as simple as clearing the font cache and I've noticed flawless zippy engraving speeds after that. From as bad as 45 seconds down to 5 seconds in no time! Not sure if this applies to Windows 7, but you could try that if you see engraving speeds slow down (not related to CPU threads, per se). Hope this helps. Now, if LilyPond ever maxes out 4 cores + 4 cores of hyper-threading to 98% CPU, then that's a problem. But that won't be happening anytime soon... ;) Have a good one! - composer | sound designer | asmr artist LilyPond Tutorials (for beginners) --> http://bit.ly/bcl-lilypond -- View this message in context: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/Lilypond-hogging-a-processor-and-slowing-down-tp200149p200157.html Sent from the User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
Re: Lilypond hogging a processor and slowing down
One thing that can take a lot of time is building Font database. There seems to be a "bug" in Lilypond on Windows so that the font database is created every time! A workaround is to delete the directory %homepath%\ .lilypond-fonts.cache-2 The first time you Engrave it create the font database, but the next time it's already done... NB! If you're using multiple versions of Lilypond you need to do this every time you change version: // Anders On 2017-02-15 15:38, Peter Toye wrote: Re: Lilypond hogging a processor and slowing down Phil, You're right - I should have said. Windows 7. LP 2.19.52 Best regards, Peter mailto:lilyp...@ptoye.com www.ptoye.com <http://www.ptoye.com> - Wednesday, February 15, 2017, 1:15:38 PM, you wrote: Lilypond version? Operating system? -- Phil Holmes - Original Message - *From: *Peter Toye <mailto:lilyp...@ptoye.com> *To: *lilypond-user@gnu.org <mailto:lilypond-user@gnu.org> *Sent:* Wednesday, February 15, 2017 12:50 PM *Subject:* Lilypond hogging a processor and slowing down In the last few days LP has slowed right down when using Frescobaldi - engraving a one-bar snippet took 25 seconds! And it was completely hogging one processor - 24.9% utilisation on a 4-processor machine. The only thing that I can think of is that inadvertently I double-clicked on the LP icon rather than the Frescobaldi one at some stage before the slowup happened, but that just produced the standard test file output. I've tried uninstalling and re-installing LP, but that didn't change anything. Any ideas? Peter mailto:lilyp...@ptoye.com www.ptoye.com <http://www.ptoye.com> ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
Re: Lilypond hogging a processor and slowing down
Phil, You're right - I should have said. Windows 7. LP 2.19.52 Best regards, Peter mailto:lilyp...@ptoye.com www.ptoye.com - Wednesday, February 15, 2017, 1:15:38 PM, you wrote: Lilypond version? Operating system? -- Phil Holmes - Original Message - From: Peter Toye To: lilypond-user@gnu.org Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2017 12:50 PM Subject: Lilypond hogging a processor and slowing down In the last few days LP has slowed right down when using Frescobaldi - engraving a one-bar snippet took 25 seconds! And it was completely hogging one processor - 24.9% utilisation on a 4-processor machine. The only thing that I can think of is that inadvertently I double-clicked on the LP icon rather than the Frescobaldi one at some stage before the slowup happened, but that just produced the standard test file output. I've tried uninstalling and re-installing LP, but that didn't change anything. Any ideas? Peter mailto:lilyp...@ptoye.com www.ptoye.com ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
Re: Lilypond hogging a processor and slowing down
Peter Toye wrote: ... it was completely hogging one processor - 24.9% utilisation on a 4-processor machine. That's quite normal. It's hard to spread the load, and Lilypond doesn't try. Maybe this is the first time you have looked this closely. Cheers, Robin ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
Re: Lilypond hogging a processor and slowing down
Lilypond hogging a processor and slowing downLilypond version? Operating system? -- Phil Holmes - Original Message - From: Peter Toye To: lilypond-user@gnu.org Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2017 12:50 PM Subject: Lilypond hogging a processor and slowing down In the last few days LP has slowed right down when using Frescobaldi - engraving a one-bar snippet took 25 seconds! And it was completely hogging one processor - 24.9% utilisation on a 4-processor machine. The only thing that I can think of is that inadvertently I double-clicked on the LP icon rather than the Frescobaldi one at some stage before the slowup happened, but that just produced the standard test file output. I've tried uninstalling and re-installing LP, but that didn't change anything. Any ideas? Peter mailto:lilyp...@ptoye.com www.ptoye.com -- ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
Lilypond hogging a processor and slowing down
In the last few days LP has slowed right down when using Frescobaldi - engraving a one-bar snippet took 25 seconds! And it was completely hogging one processor - 24.9% utilisation on a 4-processor machine. The only thing that I can think of is that inadvertently I double-clicked on the LP icon rather than the Frescobaldi one at some stage before the slowup happened, but that just produced the standard test file output. I've tried uninstalling and re-installing LP, but that didn't change anything. Any ideas? Peter mailto:lilyp...@ptoye.com www.ptoye.com___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
