[XeTeX] Fwd: [OS X TeX] Strange network behavior with XeTeX

[William Adams]

This came through on the OS X TeX mailing list, thought JK would want  
to see it here.

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> From: "James Crippen" <jcrippen at gmail.com>
> Date: September 14, 2006 1:47:15 AM EDT
> To: "TeX on Mac OS X Mailing List" <MacOSX-TeX at email.esm.psu.edu>
> Subject: [OS X TeX] Strange network behavior with XeTeX
> Reply-To: "TeX on Mac OS X Mailing List" <MacOSX- 
> TeX at email.esm.psu.edu>
>
> When I run XeTeX (actually XeLaTeX) on a document I get some strange
> network usage happening. I'm at home on a PowerBook G4 connected over
> wireless to my home network. There is a G5 which has a USB printer
> attached to it and which is served by the G5 to the network. On my
> laptop I check the access_log for cups at /var/log/cups/access_log and
> see this:
>
> localhost - - [13/Sep/2006:19:37:57 -1000] "POST / HTTP/1.1" 200 152
> localhost - - [13/Sep/2006:19:37:57 -1000] "POST / HTTP/1.1" 200 152
> localhost - - [13/Sep/2006:19:37:57 -1000] "POST / HTTP/1.1" 200 75
> localhost - - [13/Sep/2006:19:37:57 -1000] "POST / HTTP/1.1" 200 219
> localhost - - [13/Sep/2006:19:37:57 -1000] "POST / HTTP/1.1" 200 231
>
> and at the same time I'm getting a huge wad of network activity. This
> stalls XeTeX for a good minute while data is transferred over the
> network. I haven't traced it to see what is going on, but I can if
> necessary.
>
> Any idea why XeTeX would be causing this behavior?
>
> James
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William Adams
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