Re: latex very slow on mac os x


I have just repaired all the permissions using the Disk Utility (from
/Applications/Utilities/ , -I also try the MainMenu which is very
nice-). It was a very good idea but unfortunately the problem persists.
I will try to post ,as you suggested, my problem on a specific Mac
Latex forum.
thank you very much for your answer
cheers

PS: my mac is under os x 10.4

Rowland McDonnell wrote:
olivier dadoun <odadoun@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hello,
thanks for all those anwsers.
I just make a very simple test: when I pass in SuperUser mode (in root
user)
and I compile my tex file again the compilation is very very fast less
than 2secondes ...
(I created also another account without the root permission, and the
compilation of my tex file
is also very very fast).
So I think now that my problem is not coming from my tex installation,
but somewhere
in my user environment ...
Does someone have an idea ???

[snip]

In detail, no. But I suspect the best place to ask about this sort of
thing would be a Mac-specific TeX forum.

<http://www.esm.psu.edu/mac-tex/main.shtml#Mailinglist>

That's probably your best hope. If not, perhaps a general Mac forum -
maybe one of the comp.sys.mac groups?

Aside from that - well, if you've got an account-specific problem, who
knows?

In your position, I'd start out with doing all the usual Mac OS X voodoo
- repair permissions, check discs (I know we're supposed to have
journalled file systems, but I don't trust 'em), run the routine
maintenance jobs, and maybe trash some caches (MainMenu can help with
that - it's free; search for it at any of the Mac software sites).

If the problem persists after that (and I think that it will), it'll
either be an issue with some installed software, or an installed
software configuration problem (well, obviously - it can't be anything
else). You might try uninstalling `extra goodies' - or perhaps you
might set up a new normal user account, add any goodies you use in your
normal account one bit at a time, and see if anything you add causes TeX
to run dog slow.

I wonder about things like Spotlight and Dashboard and suchlike getting
in the way, if you've got 10.4.x.

Rowland.

.

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