[tex-live] TeXLive 2005 is slower than TeXLive2003
Hans Hagen
pragma at wxs.nl
Fri Sep 8 11:38:35 CEST 2006
Jerzy B. Ludwichowski wrote:
> David Kastrup wrote:
>
>> karl at freefriends.org (Karl Berry) writes:
>>
>>
>>
>>> And the directory of TeXLive 2003 is much bigger than that of TeXLive 2005.
>>>
>>> That doesn't actually mean much, given ls-R files. The question (well,
>>> one question) is whether the configuration files are telling the
>>> binaries to search the disk in the 05 case and not the 03 case. You
>>> might diff the texmf.cnf files and see if anything looks suspicious,
>>> like a missing !!. You might also run kpsewhich --debug story.tex (say)
>>> and compare the output to see if there are major differences in what
>>> gets searched.
>>>
>>>
>> System calls can easily be tracked by running
>>
>> strace tex ...
>>
>> on a typical Unix-like system.
>>
>>
>>
> There is a system performance monitoring tool (control panel >
> administrative tools > performance) or started from the command line as
> perfmon.msc) which can trace various characteristics of system activity.
> It has got a Help. I'd think that with a bit of luck one could find out
> what's going on. I do not say that this will be easy.
>
>
http://www.sysinternals.com/
filemon
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