[OS X TeX] Slow MacTeX 2008

[Nestor Aguilera]

Perhaps updating the locate database (sudo /usr/libexec/ 
locate.updatedb) will help?

Nestor

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On Oct 28, 2008, at 12:17, David B. Thompson, Ph.D., P.E., D.WRE, CFM  
wrote:

>
> 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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