Bob Tennent <[email protected]> writes: > >|> How much memory does that system have? I suggest executing "top" > >|> in a separate window and watching what happens during the XML2PMX > >|> execution. > >| > >| > >|`top' shows that more than 80% of memory is engaged by XML2PMX, and > >|about 10% > >|of CPU. > > XML2PMX was written for the Oberon system and I conjecture > that the Linux version uses an emulation of the Oberon > system which is likely too big for your system, so it's > swapping pages to and from your hard drive. > > What can you do? You could take it to a computer repair > place and ask whether they can add more memory.
Done! They replaced the old 1GB RAM with a 2GB new one (used actually) and now XML2PMX takes just a few seconds to process a file... Thanks! Cheers, Rodolfo ------------------------------- [email protected] mailing list If you want to unsubscribe or look at the archives, go to https://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
