From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/9766 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jens-Uwe Morawski Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Is your ConTeXt too slow? Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2002 16:51:30 +0100 Sender: ntg-context-admin@ref.ntg.nl Message-ID: <20021108165130.07852018.morawski@gmx.net> References: <20021107213644.245e2e11.morawski@gmx.net> <5.1.0.14.1.20021108092746.029b6cd8@server-1> <20021108110348.197b49c5.morawski@gmx.net> <20021108132814.GD9042@math.sf.edu> Reply-To: ntg-context@ref.ntg.nl NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1036770904 22728 80.91.224.249 (8 Nov 2002 15:55:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2002 15:55:04 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from ref.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.13] helo=ref.ntg.nl) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18ABTJ-0005u0-00 for ; Fri, 08 Nov 2002 16:55:01 +0100 Original-Received: from ref.ntg.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ref.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id B58F210B0B; Fri, 8 Nov 2002 16:56:27 +0100 (MET) Original-Received: from mail.gmx.net (mail.gmx.net [213.165.64.20]) by ref.ntg.nl (Postfix) with SMTP id 48EB710B06 for ; Fri, 8 Nov 2002 16:55:15 +0100 (MET) Original-Received: (qmail 14442 invoked by uid 0); 8 Nov 2002 15:55:14 -0000 Original-Received: from port1471.fra.ginko.net (HELO melior.localdomain) (212.202.67.201) by mail.gmx.net (mp007-rz3) with SMTP; 8 Nov 2002 15:55:14 -0000 Original-To: ntg-context@ref.ntg.nl In-Reply-To: <20021108132814.GD9042@math.sf.edu> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.5 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-redhat-linux) Errors-To: ntg-context-admin@ref.ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ref.ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.13 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:9766 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:9766 On Fri, 8 Nov 2002 08:28:14 -0500 Jan Hlavacek wrote: > On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 11:03:48AM +0100, Jens-Uwe Morawski wrote: > > On Fri, 08 Nov 2002 09:30:56 +0100 > > Hans Hagen wrote: > > > > > At 09:36 PM 11/7/2002 +0100, Jens-Uwe Morawski wrote: > > > >gnome-terminal: 2 min 18 sec > > > >konsole (KDE-terminal): 1 min 30 sec > > > >xterm: 1 min 5 sec > > > >directly on the console > > > > (no X-Windows): 58 sec > > > > > > > >Don't ask me for reasons, but if your ConTeXt is too > > > >slow, ask yourself if you run it on the right terminal -) > > > > > > maybe no ls-R file is found and consulted, resulting in a full scan of the > > > texmf file structure. > > > > No, no. TeX finds its files very fast. I could improve that with a smaller > > texmf-tree, but 1+ min for the job is IMO okay; it runs 3xConTeXt, > > 2xTeXUtil and 2xMetaPost. The problem is the terminal program. It seems > > that the drawing of those many messages on the terminal needs much time. > > If i use a slow terminal, i.e. gnome-terminal, then the runtime increases. > Did you try to run context with output redirected to a file? How long > does that take? > > try texexec yourfile.tex > logfile ahh, interesting idea. Now it is independent from the used terminal and a run needs about 50 seconds. Jens