[OS X TeX] Remarks about TeX on Leopard
Herbert Schulz
herbs at wideopenwest.com
Sat Nov 3 14:16:22 CET 2007
On Nov 2, 2007, at 9:50 PM, Richard Koch wrote:
> For a long time, users have pointed out that TeXShop leaks memory
> when a file is typeset. After typesetting many times, it may be
> necessary to quit and restart the program.
>
> This leakage is deliberate. When Tiger was introduced, I discovered
> that the program became sluggish after typesetting a large file.
> Experiments showed that the sluggishness occurred when the system
> released the old pdf data from memory. So I added code which kept
> the old pdf data rather than disposing it, and the sluggishness
> vanished. See
>
> TeXShop Help --> How do I configure TeXShop --> Hidden Preference
> Items
>
> for details. TeXShop has a hidden preference to turn this "fix" off:
>
> defaults write TeXShop ReleaseDocumentClasses 2
>
> Recently, a few users reported that this command fixes the memory
> leakage without introducing sluggishness on Leopard. Thus I
> recommend that users type this command in Terminal (but ONLY if
> they are running Leopard!). Please let me know of any problems
> this creates. If the command is issued again with a "1" rather than
> a "2", you'll return to the current behavior.
>
> Dick Koch
> koch at math.uoregon.edu
Howdy,
I see that my TeXShop.plist file has ReleaseDocumentClasses set to 0
(and don't remember how it got that way... Sigh). Is that meaningful
and/or should I change it to 1 (under Tiger)?
Good Luck,
Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest.com)
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