[OS X TeX] Slow MacTeX 2008

Luis Vitorio Cargnini lvcargnini at gmail.com
Tue Oct 28 10:20:33 EDT 2008 

trying to help follow my results:

  time pdflatex sample2e.tex
This is pdfTeXk, Version 3.1415926-1.40.9 (Web2C 7.5.7)
  %&-line parsing enabled.
entering extended mode
(/usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/sample2e.tex
LaTeX2e <2005/12/01>
Babel <v3.8l> and hyphenation patterns for english, usenglishmax,  
dumylang, noh
yphenation, german-x-2008-06-18, ngerman-x-2008-06-18, ancientgreek,  
ibycus, ar
abic, basque, bulgarian, catalan, pinyin, coptic, croatian, czech,  
danish, dutc
h, esperanto, estonian, farsi, finnish, french, galician, german,  
ngerman, mono
greek, greek, hungarian, icelandic, indonesian, interlingua, irish,  
italian, la
tin, mongolian, mongolian2a, bokmal, nynorsk, polish, portuguese,  
romanian, rus
sian, sanskrit, serbian, slovak, slovenian, spanish, swedish, turkish,  
ukenglis
h, ukrainian, uppersorbian, welsh, loaded.
(/usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/article.cls
Document Class: article 2005/09/16 v1.4f Standard LaTeX document class
(/usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/size10.clo))
No file sample2e.aux.
(/usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/omscmr.fd) [1{/usr/ 
local/tex
live/2008/texmf-var/fonts/map/pdftex/updmap/pdftex.map}] [2] [3]
(./sample2e.aux) )</usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/ 
bluesky/cm/cm
bx12.pfb></usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/bluesky/cm/ 
cmex10.pfb>
</usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/bluesky/cm/ 
cmmi10.pfb></usr/loc
al/texlive/2008/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/bluesky/cm/cmmi7.pfb></usr/ 
local/texlive
/2008/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/bluesky/cm/cmr10.pfb></usr/local/texlive/ 
2008/texm
f-dist/fonts/type1/bluesky/cm/cmr12.pfb></usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf- 
dist/fon
ts/type1/bluesky/cm/cmr17.pfb></usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-dist/ 
fonts/type1/b
luesky/cm/cmr6.pfb></usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/ 
bluesky/cm/c
mr7.pfb></usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/bluesky/cm/ 
cmr8.pfb></u
sr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/bluesky/cm/cmsy10.pfb></ 
usr/local/
texlive/2008/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/bluesky/cm/cmsy7.pfb></usr/local/ 
texlive/20
08/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/bluesky/cm/cmti10.pfb>
Output written on sample2e.pdf (3 pages, 69554 bytes).
Transcript written on sample2e.log.

real	0m1.351s
user	0m0.311s
sys	0m0.109s
bash-3.2$ kpsewhich -show-path=tex | tr ':' '\n'
.
/Users/lvcargnini/.texlive2008/texmf-config/tex/kpsewhich//
/Users/lvcargnini/.texlive2008/texmf-var/tex/kpsewhich//
/Users/lvcargnini/Library/texmf/tex/kpsewhich//
!!/usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-config/tex/kpsewhich//
!!/usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-var/tex/kpsewhich//
!!/usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf/tex/kpsewhich//
!!/usr/local/texlive/2008/../texmf-local/tex/kpsewhich//
!!/usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-dist/tex/kpsewhich//
/Users/lvcargnini/.texlive2008/texmf-config/tex/generic//
/Users/lvcargnini/.texlive2008/texmf-var/tex/generic//
/Users/lvcargnini/Library/texmf/tex/generic//
!!/usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-config/tex/generic//
!!/usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-var/tex/generic//
!!/usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf/tex/generic//
!!/usr/local/texlive/2008/../texmf-local/tex/generic//
!!/usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-dist/tex/generic//
/Users/lvcargnini/.texlive2008/texmf-config/tex///
/Users/lvcargnini/.texlive2008/texmf-var/tex///
/Users/lvcargnini/Library/texmf/tex///
!!/usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-config/tex///
!!/usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-var/tex///
!!/usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf/tex///
!!/usr/local/texlive/2008/../texmf-local/tex///
!!/usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-dist/tex///
bash-3.2$

I'm running on a MacBook Pro

Le 08-10-28 à 10:17, David B. Thompson, Ph.D., P.E., D.WRE, CFM a  
écrit :

>
> On Oct 28, 2008, at 07:00 , Maarten Sneep wrote:
>
>>
>> time pdflatex sample2e.tex
>>
>> for me this yields: real  0m0.456s; user  0m0.227s; sys  0m0.041s  
>> (on an 2.4 GHz iMac).
>>
>> If your results are similar, then try to see if your particular  
>> latex file is to blame.
>
>
> Here's the result:
>
> Theoden:~ thompson$ time pdflatex sample2e.tex
> This is pdfTeXk, Version 3.1415926-1.40.9 (Web2C 7.5.7)
> %&-line parsing enabled.
> entering extended mode
> (/usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/sample2e.tex
> LaTeX2e <2005/12/01>
> Babel <v3.8l> and hyphenation patterns for english, usenglishmax,  
> dumylang, noh
> yphenation, german-x-2008-06-18, ngerman-x-2008-06-18, ancientgreek,  
> ibycus, ar
> abic, basque, bulgarian, catalan, pinyin, coptic, croatian, czech,  
> danish, dutc
> h, esperanto, estonian, farsi, finnish, french, galician, german,  
> ngerman, mono
> greek, greek, hungarian, icelandic, indonesian, interlingua, irish,  
> italian, la
> tin, mongolian, mongolian2a, bokmal, nynorsk, polish, portuguese,  
> romanian, rus
> sian, sanskrit, serbian, slovak, slovenian, spanish, swedish,  
> turkish, ukenglis
> h, ukrainian, uppersorbian, welsh, loaded.
> (/usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/article.cls
> Document Class: article 2005/09/16 v1.4f Standard LaTeX document class
> (/usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/size10.clo))
> No file sample2e.aux.
> (/usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/omscmr.fd) [1{/ 
> usr/local/tex
> live/2008/texmf-var/fonts/map/pdftex/updmap/pdftex.map}] [2] [3]
> (./sample2e.aux) )</usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/ 
> bluesky/cm/cm
> bx12.pfb></usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/bluesky/cm/ 
> cmex10.pfb>
> </usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/bluesky/cm/ 
> cmmi10.pfb></usr/loc
> al/texlive/2008/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/bluesky/cm/cmmi7.pfb></usr/ 
> local/texlive
> /2008/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/bluesky/cm/cmr10.pfb></usr/local/ 
> texlive/2008/texm
> f-dist/fonts/type1/bluesky/cm/cmr12.pfb></usr/local/texlive/2008/ 
> texmf-dist/fon
> ts/type1/bluesky/cm/cmr17.pfb></usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-dist/ 
> fonts/type1/b
> luesky/cm/cmr6.pfb></usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/ 
> bluesky/cm/c
> mr7.pfb></usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/bluesky/cm/ 
> cmr8.pfb></u
> sr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/bluesky/cm/cmsy10.pfb></ 
> usr/local/
> texlive/2008/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/bluesky/cm/cmsy7.pfb></usr/local/ 
> texlive/20
> 08/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/bluesky/cm/cmti10.pfb>
> Output written on sample2e.pdf (3 pages, 69554 bytes).
> Transcript written on sample2e.log.
>
> real    0m22.090s
> user    0m18.420s
> sys     0m1.098s
> Theoden:~ thompson$
>
>
>> Hope this gets you started.
>>
>> Report back here what the times above are, and also your $PATH and  
>> the output of
>>   kpsewhich -show-path=tex | tr ':' '\n'
>> in the terminal.
>
> Here's the kpsewhich output:
>
> Theoden:~ thompson$ kpsewhich -show-path=tex | tr ':' '\n'
> .
> /Users/thompson/.texlive2008/texmf-config/tex/kpsewhich//
> /Users/thompson/.texlive2008/texmf-var/tex/kpsewhich//
> /Users/thompson/Library/texmf/tex/kpsewhich//
> !!/usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-config/tex/kpsewhich//
> !!/usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-var/tex/kpsewhich//
> !!/usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf/tex/kpsewhich//
> !!/usr/local/texlive/2008/../texmf-local/tex/kpsewhich//
> !!/usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-dist/tex/kpsewhich//
> /Users/thompson/.texlive2008/texmf-config/tex/generic//
> /Users/thompson/.texlive2008/texmf-var/tex/generic//
> /Users/thompson/Library/texmf/tex/generic//
> !!/usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-config/tex/generic//
> !!/usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-var/tex/generic//
> !!/usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf/tex/generic//
> !!/usr/local/texlive/2008/../texmf-local/tex/generic//
> !!/usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-dist/tex/generic//
> /Users/thompson/.texlive2008/texmf-config/tex///
> /Users/thompson/.texlive2008/texmf-var/tex///
> /Users/thompson/Library/texmf/tex///
> !!/usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-config/tex///
> !!/usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-var/tex///
> !!/usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf/tex///
> !!/usr/local/texlive/2008/../texmf-local/tex///
> !!/usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-dist/tex///
>
> And my path:
>
> Theoden:~ thompson$ echo $PATH
> /sw/bin:/sw/sbin:/usr/texbin:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/ 
> local/bin::/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin
>
> I think I have a pretty simple system. My texmf tree is relatively  
> small and my particular LaTeX file is not complex (it doesn't seem  
> to matter which LaTeX file I use, by the way).
>
> This issue reduces my productivity on my desktop. I haven't  
> installed the new MacTeX on my notebook and it is much faster.  
> (Similar to your timing I think... I'll check when I get to work.)
>
> Thanks so much, Maarten. I appreciate the help. I checked the  
> obvious things (to me at least) and made no progress.
>
> -=d
>
>
>
>
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