Hi,

i am writing a math document in LyX and as the document gets longer, it
takes lyx longer and longer to get started.

Today I measured the time - it takes 3 min and 35 seconds before Lyx
allows me to start the first editing steps. Until that essentially
everything freezes. The Task-manager shows that lyx.exe and csrss.exe are
taking up 99-100% of CPU-time. Lyx takes between 70 and 80% and csrss
takes the rest.
(I am running XP on a 2.4 GHz with 1024 MB)

I am using Lyx 1.4.3-4. and have instant preview activated. Even after
that long starting perid, I have to wait several seconds for each
screenfull that I am trying to scroll, apparently since instant preview is
always preparing the png-files. So I am asking myself - if after 3:35 min
these png-files have not been prepared, what has Lyx been doing all the
time ?

But my question is more serious than that - will Lyx be able to deal with
my document as it gets larger than the 63 pages of pdf that I have now. I
assume that I will run up to about 100 pages in the end. Will that turn
out to be too much for Lyx ?

Best regards,
  H.Peter Gumm

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