[texhax] latex runs much slower as nis user

[Gordon Wells]

On Tuesday 24 February 2004 02:02, Justin Walker wrote:
> On Saturday, February 21, 2004, at 12:48 PM, Gordon Wells wrote:
> > Does someone have an explanation for this?
> > When I run latex as a nis user it is much slower compared to a local
> > user.
> > I've experienced this for two different linux distributions. The only
> > way I
> > have found around this is to create an identical local user to
> > override the
> > nis user.
>
> In all likelihood, this as zilch to do with TeX/LaTeX and friends, and
> a lot to do with your whole environment.
>

This was half true. The trailing slash in my $HOME was causing kpsewhich and 
others to conduct recursive searches (or something) at the point of the 
resulting double slash in the final .tex file path. In other words a few gigs 
of data was being searched for constructing a minor dvi, never mind trying to 
output a thesis. Nevertheless, all fixed now :)

> Check with your system mavins to figure out what is going on.  Look for:
>    - $PATH entries on the network, possibly pointing to
>      non-existent servers
>    - different $PATH entries for local vs network login
>    - "." in your path, and slow access to servers
>    - a potentially uncountable number of other gotchas
>      that justify paying your system mavins the big bucks :-}
>
> Regards,
>
> Justin
>
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Department of Biochemistry
University of Pretoria