On Tuesday 28 July 2009 14:41:54 you wrote: > Steve Litt wrote: > > On Tuesday 28 July 2009 11:25:34 Sam Liddicott wrote: > >> I'm editing a 146K Lyx document (with no pictures) and the typing speed > >> is dreadful. > > > > That's a tiny document. > > Good :-)
sl...@mydesk:/d/at/books/stories$ ls -l stories.lyx -rw-r--r-- 1 slitt slitt 612194 2008-12-12 12:19 stories.lyx sl...@mydesk:/d/at/books/stories$ That's my 200 page "Twenty Eight Tales of Troubleshooting", which has never had a problem keeping up with the typist. > > >> Characters come out at about 1 character per second with top showing 94% > >> CPU used by Lyx. What do you mean by "coming out at 1 character per second?" Do you mean it allows the typist only 1 char per second input, or do you mean something else? > > > > Interestingly, there was a similar symptom way back maybe 6 years ago, > > where someone used an n squared algorithm instead of n log n, or > > something like that, for wordwrapping. The developer found it easily and > > did one of those forehead slaps. > > > > You're not using LyX 1.2 or something like that, are you? What LyX > > version, what operating system, how much RAM on the system? > > 1.6.3 with 3Gig RAM, Ubuntu Jaunty 64 with radeonhd drivers. I've got 1.6.3 with 8GB, and I have absolutely no problem like that. My last box had 2GB but lyx 1.5.x, and had absolutely no problems with speed. > > >> The same instance of Lyx tabbed to a small document is very fast. > >> > >> Has anyone tips on speeding this up? > >> > >> - hmm a few hours later and a few lyx restarts and it's speeded up > >> again... > > > > You have an intermittent. I hate those. Keep an eye on it, and keep your > > Shall do, thanks for the advice. > > Sam
