[OS X TeX] TeXShop slow while switching between windows?

[Gary L. Gray]

On Apr 4, 2004, at 4:29 PM, Jan Erik Moström wrote:

> I would appriciate some advice on this problem, a fried has started to 
> use
> TeXShop and LaTeX for her work, but she tells me that it takes forever 
> to
> switch windows etc. (she says it takes about 30 seconds)
>
> She is running 10.2.8 on a 700MHz machine.
>
> Does anyone know what could be causing this (I haven't been able to 
> look at
> her machine yet)?

How much RAM does she have? If she doesn't have much RAM and is running 
a bunch of other stuff besides TeXShop, it could be that she is having 
to do a lot of swapping from RAM to the disk.

-- Gary
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