Trevor, I wouldnt look in the first place at problems of Lilypond. I presume that it is a problem of Vista which has too many processes running in the background. You will find, that nearly all programs run slower on this OS. And even when you only need 10 seconds it is too much compared to what the processor could manage. You have a machine with much more horsepower under the hood compared to the "old" systems. And this system performance should not be consumed by the OS.
Of course a normal user working only with Vista will not notice the difference. If you have the possibilty to install XP on your laptop I am sure that you will be astonished what you computer will be able to perform. We have tried that with different programs on different machines and nearly always had success. Hajo 2008/11/13 Trevor Daniels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Mats, when I first obtained my laptop, c. March 08, I did a LilyPond > installation with the then current 2.11 version on a clean system. So there > were no lilypond font caches present. The performance was fine then and has > been fine ever since. soon after, I tried various ways to cause the > performance to degrade in an attempt to isolate the problem being > experienced by others, but nothing I did had any effect - the performance > always has been and still is good. > > In an attempt to isolate the problem again, I have just created a > .fontconfig directory(empty, as I don't know what it should contain), > downloaded 2.11.63 and reinstalled it. But it still compiles a 3-page file > in just under 10 sec, (15 sec on first run). If I could ever get my system > to run slowly we would have the answer, but now I'm out of ideas. > > Trevor > > Mats Bengtsson wrote Thursday, November 13, 2008 11:44 AM > > > > Trevor, perhaps it's the other way around, that you don't suffer from the >> problems, >> since you already have a working cache file. Have you tried removing all >> your >> cache files (of course, keeping a back-up in a safe place) and trying the >> latest >> installation? >> >> /Mats >> >> Trevor Daniels wrote: >> >>> Jonathan >>> >>> The slowness is certainly not inherently due to Vista >>> as LilyPond has always run fine under Vista here. The >>> slowness issue was discussed at some length back in >>> March 08 on both -user and -bug when it was determined >>> that it was due to font building. This is almost certainly >>> is cause of the recently reported slowness. Incidentally, >>> a similar issue made LilyPond slow under XP too, and this >>> was fixed with the 2.11.43 release. >>> >>> I don't understand the technical issues, but on Vista >>> the fonts are contained in ~\.lilypond-fonts.cache-2. >>> (To see these make sure you have the options set in >>> Windows Explorer to Show hidden file and folders.) >>> This should contain a number of smaller files (>=2) >>> and one large file, c. 800Kb on my system. Check the >>> date/time the large file was last modified. It should >>> only be changed infrequently (I don't know what triggers >>> it.) If it changes on every LP run, then this is the cause >>> of the slowness. Two of the smaller files should be rebuilt >>> on the first run after a new install, which causes the >>> this first run to take more time, around 20 secs more, >>> than subsequent runs. >>> >>> So what might cause this incorrect font cache rebuild? >>> >>> In the past, one cause was an incorrect version of >>> libfontconfig-1.dll but this is unlikely now as the >>> appropriate version of this dll is included with >>> every binary. Another possibility is that when this dll >>> searches for the font cache it checks for an old cache >>> first. The fonts used to be cached in ~\.fontconfig. >>> If such a directory is present it might be worth trying >>> deleting it or moving it to another directory. >>> >>> Trevor >>> >>> >>> >>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jonathan Kulp" < >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> To: "Tim Slattery" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> Cc: <lilypond-user@gnu.org> >>> Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2008 5:47 PM >>> Subject: Re: LilyPond is excessively slow on Windows Vista >>> >>> >>> Tim Slattery wrote: >>>> >>>>> Carl Sorensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> 545 Defect Verified Medium ---- v.villenave LilyPond is excessively >>>>>>> slow on Windows Vista Performance fixed_2_11_43 >>>>>>> >>>>>> Rob, >>>>>> >>>>>> Have you checked that it's slow the _second_ time you run a file? It >>>>>> will be slow the first time it runs because it needs to build a font >>>>>> cache, >>>>>> but successive times should not be slow. >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On my Vista system, when I invoke Lilypond I get the GNU version >>>>> notice, and then..... >>>>> >>>>> it sits for almost 50 seconds, apparently doing NOTHING. Then it wakes >>>>> up and processes the file. It's still usable, but it sure slows things >>>>> down. >>>>> >>>>> >>>> For the sake of testing, I booted into my Vista Home Premium partition >>>> and installed the latest Lilypond binary from the download page. I ran a >>>> lilypond file once and it took about 90 seconds, then ran it a second time >>>> and it took more than 60 seconds. The same file on Linux compiles in less >>>> than 2 seconds. Honestly I don't know how anyone uses Vista as their main >>>> OS. This is a reasonably powerful laptop less than 6 months old with 2GB >>>> of >>>> RAM and a dual-core processor. I have all the aero eye candy disabled and >>>> it still runs 10x slower than the 8-year-old Gateway box in my office >>>> running Ubuntu 8.04. Man. Glad to be back on the Linux side :) >>>> >>>> Jon >>>> -- >>>> Jonathan Kulp >>>> http://www.jonathankulp.com >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> lilypond-user mailing list >>>> lilypond-user@gnu.org >>>> http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> lilypond-user mailing list >>> lilypond-user@gnu.org >>> http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user >>> >> >> -- >> ============================================= >> Mats Bengtsson >> Signal Processing >> School of Electrical Engineering >> Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) >> SE-100 44 STOCKHOLM >> Sweden >> Phone: (+46) 8 790 8463 Fax: (+46) 8 790 7260 >> Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> WWW: http://www.s3.kth.se/~mabe <http://www.s3.kth.se/%7Emabe> >> ============================================= >> >> >> > > > _______________________________________________ > lilypond-user mailing list > lilypond-user@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user > -- --- ... indessen wandelt harmlos droben das Gestirn
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