@Steve,16 Gb of ram, cpu iddle... I don't think it's a matter of resources. @Julien, you narrowed down the problem! when I close the outline pane, everything is fast. Unfortunately, for my use case I need it open...
I wonder if Rob Oakes, who has been working on the outliner code, could improve performance. Maybe there's an inconsistency on the headings on this particular file that make it slow... I'm going to generate a file with only say 100 headings, but only two levels, and then increase the complexity until I hit the slow down... Will report back. Best, -Jose Jose Quesada, PhD. Max Planck Institute, Center for Adaptive Behavior and Cognition, Berlin http://www.josequesada.name/ http://twitter.com/Quesada On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 8:16 PM, Steve Litt <sl...@troubleshooters.com>wrote: > On Saturday 12 June 2010 11:55:20 Jose Quesada wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm not sure if this is only on my particular doc, but it seems to me > > that lyx chokes on documents with many subsections? > > It's a notes doc. It may have close to a hundred headinds (section, > > subsection etc). > > Typing becomes slow. Even moving around with the arrow keys shows a > > noticeable delay. > > > > Since LyX is praised for working really well on longer documents, such as > > books, I'm surprised. > > I tried 1.6.4 (ubuntu) 1.6.6 (sabayon) and 2alpha 3 (ubuntu). Same > problem. > > > > In this use case, there's almost as much 'section' content as there's > > 'default' paragraph content. Maybe this is abusing the design of LyX...? > > > > Best, > > -Jose > > A long, long time ago, back in the Xforms days (yeah, let's not get started > on > that), a LyX version had a bug where a moderately long doc would allow the > typist to outrun LyX. It was some problem with a specific algorithm (maybe > shifting X characters by shifting 1 character X times, or something like > that). But since then, I haven't seen a Lyx version that let me (45 to 50 > wpm) > get ahead of LyX, even though I've written some fairly big books with lots > of > headings. My "Thriving in Tough Times" book has 112 Subsection headers: > > ===================== > sl...@mydesk:/d/at/books/mental$ cat thrive.lyx | grep "begin_layout > Subsection" | wc -lsl...@mydesk:/d/at/books/mental$ > 112 > sl...@mydesk:/d/at/books/mental$ > ===================== > > I'm using LyX 1.6.4 on Ubuntu 9.10 32bit with 3.4 GB of recognizeable RAM. > > ===================== > sl...@mydesk:/d/at/books/mental$ lyx -version > LyX 1.6.4 (2009-08-22) > Built on Sep 22 2009, 23:23:06 > Configuration > Host type: i486-pc-linux-gnu > Special build flags: aiksaurus warnings use-aspell use-ispell > C Compiler: gcc > C Compiler LyX flags: > C Compiler flags: -g -O2 > C++ Compiler: g++ (4.4.1) > C++ Compiler LyX flags: > C++ Compiler flags: -g -O2 > Linker flags: > Linker user flags: -Wl,-Bsymbolic-functions -Wl,-z,defs > -Wl,--as- > ne eded -Wl,-z,defs -Wl,--as- > needed > Qt 4 Frontend: > Qt 4 version: 4.5.2 > Packaging: posix > LyX binary dir: /usr/bin > LyX files dir: /usr/share/lyx > > sl...@mydesk:/d/at/books/mental$ uname -a > Linux mydesk 2.6.31-20-generic #58-Ubuntu SMP Fri Mar 12 05:23:09 UTC 2010 > i686 GNU/Linux > sl...@mydesk:/d/at/books/mental$ head -n1 /proc/meminfo > MemTotal: 3346096 kB > sl...@mydesk:/d/at/books/mental$ > ===================== > > Always assuming you're not using a 2004 version that has this known bug, > I'd > suspect you might be running short on RAM, or you're using a VERY > underpowered > CPU, or something like that. > > If I were going to troubleshoot this, I'd reboot the machine and try LyXing > the doc again. Either it's slow or it's not. If it's not, start looking at > other software running concurrently with LyX. If it is, cut a copy of the > doc > in half and see whether it's just as slow, half as slow, or not slow at > all. > Continue doing this half splitting until you discover the factors > corresponding to slow behavior. > > StevET > > > Steve Litt > Recession Relief Package > http://www.recession-relief.US > Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt > >
