Per document or per machine sounds good to me. BTW, I have created a ticket online so this issue will not be forgotten: http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/8032
Regards, Yihui -- Yihui Xie <xieyi...@gmail.com> Phone: 515-294-2465 Web: http://yihui.name Department of Statistics, Iowa State University 2215 Snedecor Hall, Ames, IA On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 7:37 AM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <lasgout...@lyx.org> wrote: > Le 03/02/2012 04:08, Jack Tanner a écrit : > >> Jean-Marc Lasgouttes<lasgouttes<at> lyx.org> writes: >> >>> >>> It is probably doable to set the timeout value per converter. This would >>> be the best solution IMO. >> >> >> I can be convinced that setting the timeout value on a chunk-by-chunk >> basis is >> excessive, but per converter is too coarse. Maybe per document? >> > > You mean per-document and per machine, right? :p > > Seriously, the timeout only kicks in when a program is hung. For Sweave > document, I do not think that having it set too large (would 1 hour be > enough to you?) would hurt. > > Or do I misunderstood what these timeouts do? > > JMarc
