[OS X TeX] Poor performance on a MacBookPro

[Dave Murray-Rust]

On 3 Sep 2007, at 21:59, Maarten Sneep wrote:

>
> On Sep 3, 2007, at 22:44, Dave Murray-Rust wrote:
>
>> It seems to be searching through *every* file in my home directory  
>> (which is quite large). I don't know why though - I've tried  
>> export TEXINPUTS="", and it still goes through everything.
>>
>> If I log in as a different user, then my test file takes 0.13s to  
>> compile, which is more like it.
>>
>> So why is kpathsea searching everything, and how do I make it stop?
>
> what is the output of
> kpsewhich -show-path=tex -progname=pdflatex| sed 's/:/\
> /g'
>

.
/Volumes/Data/Users/dave//.texlive2007/texmf-config/tex/latex//
/Volumes/Data/Users/dave//.texlive2007/texmf-var/tex/latex//
/Volumes/Data/Users/dave//Library/texmf/tex/latex//
!!/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-config/tex/latex//
!!/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-var/tex/latex//
!!/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf/tex/latex//
!!/usr/local/texlive/2007/../texmf-local/tex/latex//
!!/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/tex/latex//
/Volumes/Data/Users/dave//.texlive2007/texmf-config/tex/generic//
/Volumes/Data/Users/dave//.texlive2007/texmf-var/tex/generic//
/Volumes/Data/Users/dave//Library/texmf/tex/generic//
!!/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-config/tex/generic//
!!/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-var/tex/generic//
!!/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf/tex/generic//
!!/usr/local/texlive/2007/../texmf-local/tex/generic//
!!/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/tex/generic//
/Volumes/Data/Users/dave//.texlive2007/texmf-config/tex///
/Volumes/Data/Users/dave//.texlive2007/texmf-var/tex///
/Volumes/Data/Users/dave//Library/texmf/tex///
!!/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-config/tex///
!!/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-var/tex///
!!/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf/tex///
!!/usr/local/texlive/2007/../texmf-local/tex///
!!/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/tex///

> Also give the output of
> kpsewhich texmf.cnf

/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf

Also, FWIW:

 > latex -kpathsea-debug=-1 test.tex 2> test.out
 > wc test.out
452016 1607663 58306139 test.out

 > find ~/ | wc
   59419   88269 6188352

i.e. about 9 times more entries in the kpathsea output.

Cheers,
dave

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