[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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