On Thu, 22 Feb 2001, Thomas Esser wrote:
> > (/.../austin.ibm.com/fs/proj/p9/gsys/pkg/teTeX-1.0/share/texmf/fonts/source/pub
> > lic/cm/romanu.mf [65]
>
> Just let it run. There is no endless loop. Metafont generates the font
> bitmaps for you. Try a small document to see that I am right, e.g.
> tex story\\bye; xdvi story
>
> The teTeX FAQ tells you a few ways to generate fonts in a batch.
I'm aware of its function and had read the faq about generating
fonts in batch. It was my hope to display some test file by allowing
metafont to generate the bitmaps on the fly before attempting
to batch-produce pk fonts.
I tried your suggestion:
> tex story\\bye; xdvi story
at 8:25 am (CST) today. It's now 1:52 pm (CST). That's about 5 hours
without sign of progress. 'mf' continues to run and is consuming upwards
of 90% of the processor and about 2 Mb of memory.
I am able to display the story.dvi file using xdvi on a different system.
I cd'ed to my teTeX-1.0/share/texmf/fonts directory and did a
> find . -name "*.pk" -print
and get no output (if I change that pk to an mf, I get lots of file
listings).
My job is runing on a 512 Mb RS/6000 model 397 Workstation.
(http://www.rs6000.ibm.com/hardware/workstations/397.html)
This isn't the latest and greatest, but I don't believe that it should
take so long on this system. I would guess that twenty minutes would be a
long time for story.dvi. What type of performance would you
expect on, say, a 200 Mhz PowerPC 604 (PowerMac), a 200 Mhz Pentium II, or
Solaris Ultrasparc I?
I tried compiling teTeX with '-g', no optimization, and no inlining
to be sure that it wasn't an optimization defect. I appear to get
the same behavior as the conservatively optimized version. (The
5hr jobs is running in the optimized compilation.)
If you have any other suggestions, I'd love to hear them.
Thanks
-Travis Pouarz
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> tex story\\bye; xdvi story
This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (Web2C 7.3.1)
(/.../austin.ibm.com/fs/proj/p9/gsys/pkg/teTeX-1.0/share/texmf/tex/plain/base/s
tory.tex [1])
Output written on story.dvi (1 page, 668 bytes).
Transcript written on story.log.
kpathsea: Running mktexpk --mfmode qms --bdpi 300 --mag 1+0/300 --dpi 300
cmsl10
mktexpk: Running mf \mode:=qms; mag:=1+0/300; nonstopmode; input cmsl10
This is METAFONT, Version 2.7182 (Web2C 7.3.1)
(/.../austin.ibm.com/fs/proj/p9/gsys/pkg/teTeX-1.0/share/texmf/fonts/source/pub
lic/cm/cmsl10.mf
(/.../austin.ibm.com/fs/proj/p9/gsys/pkg/teTeX-1.0/share/texmf/fonts/source/pub
lic/cm/cmbase.mf)
(/.../austin.ibm.com/fs/proj/p9/gsys/pkg/teTeX-1.0/share/texmf/fonts/source/pub
lic/cm/roman.mf
(/.../austin.ibm.com/fs/proj/p9/gsys/pkg/teTeX-1.0/share/texmf/fonts/source/pub
lic/cm/romanu.mf [65]
-------------------
Relevant process list:
twp 11818 32992 0 08:25:35 pts/1 0:00 sh
/dfs/projects/gsys/pkg/teTeX-1.0/bin/rs6000-ibm-aix4.3.3.0/mktexpk --mfmode qms --bdpi
300 --mag 1+0/300 --dpi 300 cmsl10
twp 31524 26676 0 08:25:31 pts/1 0:00 xdvi.bin story
twp 32992 31524 0 08:25:33 pts/1 0:00 sh
/dfs/projects/gsys/pkg/teTeX-1.0/bin/rs6000-ibm-aix4.3.3.0/mktexpk --mfmode qms --bdpi
300 --mag 1+0/300 --dpi 300 cmsl10
twp 36440 11818 120 08:25:37 pts/1 337:52 mf \mode:=qms; mag:=1+0/300;
nonstopmode; input cmsl10
