[OS X TeX] Typesetting factor of 2 slower in Leopard

[Adam M. Goldstein]

This is odd. I have an intel mac, and typesetting is really fast, and  
in any case, didn't change when I upgraded to Leopard. How are you  
typesetting? With TeXShop? I wonder if you can take a minimal  
document, say, a page long article, and typeset it from the command  
line? That might narrow the problem down a little, at least. I have no  
idea what could be causing this and am not a particularly sharp  
troubleshooter with this sort of thing, but maybe that's a good place  
to start.

Are the logs the same in Leopard as in Tiger? Does it seem to be doing  
anything different?

mds and mdworker always seem to be doing something on my system,  
sometimes not using much processing power, sometimes using lots.

-Adam

On Jan 21, 2009, at 9:39 PM, Warren Nagourney wrote:

> When the spotlight programs stopped running, I am back to a 28  
> second typeset. Apparently something is different with Leopard,  
> maybe a priority? (Even my crippled PS3 under Ubuntu typesets the  
> book in 12 seconds).
>
> Cheers,
>
> Warren N
>
> On Jan 21, 2009, at 6:30 PM, Warren Nagourney wrote:
>
>> Unfortunately, re-installing MacTeX had no effect. It is even  
>> running slower (but I have Mail and Activity Monitor running).
>>
>> Actually, even though the spotlight "dot" is not blinking, mds and  
>> mdworker are on and this might be what is eating up cpu cycles (I  
>> didn't notice them before -  they were probably launched by my re- 
>> installation). I'll wait until they finish.
>>
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Warren Nagourney
>>
>> On Jan 21, 2009, at 5:58 PM, Herbert Schulz wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> On Jan 21, 2009, at 7:53 PM, Warren Nagourney wrote:
>>>
>>>> I just installed Leopard on my G4 Powerbook and found that  
>>>> typesetting in TeXshop is a factor of two slower than it was  
>>>> under Tiger (10.4.11). I waited until the Spoghtlight indexing  
>>>> was done and verified (using the Activity Monitor) that there was  
>>>> very little else going on when I did the typeset. I also typeset  
>>>> twice in a row; both took about the same time. There was very  
>>>> little disk activity according to the Activity Monitor. After  
>>>> booting, with little else active (and waiting until the disk  
>>>> settled down), it used to take 12-14 seconds to typeset my 245  
>>>> page manuscript (an unfinished book); now it takes about 28 sec.  
>>>> The processor setting in the preferences (Energy Saving) is set  
>>>> at the highest.
>>>>
>>>> I thought I might try to reinstall MacTeX. I am using the 2008  
>>>> distribution (MacTeX-2008.mpkg). Do you think that might help?  
>>>> Finally, are there any other pitfalls to using TeXshop with  
>>>> Leopard?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks very much.
>>>>
>>>> Warren Nagourney
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Howdy,
>>>
>>> How did you install MacTeX? The way the path is set up is  
>>> different in Leopard than on prior versions of OS X. If re- 
>>> installing MacTeX 2008 isn't an issue I'd recommend doing that.
>>>
>>> Good Luck,
>>>
>>> Herb Schulz
>>> (herbs at wideopenwest dot com)
>>>
>>>
>>>
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