On 02/26/2016 05:30 PM, Jerry wrote: > On Feb 26, 2016, at 3:27 AM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <lasgout...@lyx.org> wrote: > >> Le 26/02/2016 11:09, Jerry a écrit : >>> On Feb 25, 2016, at 6:52 AM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <lasgout...@lyx.org> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Le 25/02/2016 10:01, Jerry a écrit : >>>>> When I ran the Python command in a terminal, it proceeded quickly to >>>>> "+Indexing TeX files..." and stayed there for about 34 minutes and >>>>> everything else took no more than about a minute--just as before >>>>> installing texlive-fonts-recommended. >>>> Does this mean that running "python scripts/TeXFiles.py" is the command >>>> that is slow? >>>> >>>> JMarc >>> I don't know. >> Could you try to run it like you ran by hand configure.py? To be frank I'd >> be suprised to find out that the is the culprit, but the message "+Indexing >> TeX files... " would point to that, unless I am mistaken. > Sorry for my lazy answer but I sort of didn't understand it. Running > TeXFiles.py resulted in about 8-9 minutes spent in each of "Indexing files of > type cls|sty|bst|bib". Processor usage by Python was low at around 4%. The > rest of the remaining running time was negligible by comparison.
The backtrace suggests that it is taking a very long time just to collect directory info. If one had a really, really big TeX installation, could that cause this kind of problem? (That's a question for JMarc, Jerry, not for you.) Richard
