> > > > > I have used LyX in -dbg mode and checked the conversion process. It > > > > > does not seem that LyX itself is doing things badly, but it calls > > > > > convert for every image on the current screen and convert seems to > > > > > be doing a bad job, taking up all memory and filling the swap area > > > > > as well. > > > > > > Wouldn't 'nice' be useful in this situation? > > > > Sure. But not LyX's business. The user is free to write his own shell scrip > t > > wrapper for convert/gs/whatever. Total freedom to set the nice value as > > desired. > > Oh, I agree... this was intended as a tip for Joao... (or people in > general who suffer from this problem)
Hm... I had to leave for 2 days, now I am catching up the news. I think that adding nice to the conversion process is a good idea that can be done in a user-by-user basis, but I believe that one of the major problems of convert is its memory consumption. Adding nice would reduce the CPU consumption, but after a while memory will again fill up with imaegs being coverted. Thta is why I believe that making the conversion process a serial one would speed up things much more: memory is used for one image at a time and thus fills up only in extreme cases. No swap, no disk delays, etc... joao
