[tex-live] kpsewhich uses huge amount of memory and CPU
Jörg Frauendiener
joergf at maths.otago.ac.nz
Tue Mar 20 21:10:43 CET 2012
Hi,
thanks for the replies. Actually, it is not related to Lion. I see the same behaviour also on 10.6.
To answer your questions: yes, I still have texlive 2010 lying around. My path is
kepler:~> echo $PATH
/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/texbin
I have not changed any paths or TeXLive variables and I don't have many files in my personal texmf tree.
I use MacPorts but not their texlive installation.
Cheers, Jorg
Am 21.03.2012 um 02:52 schrieb Herbert Schulz:
>
> On Mar 20, 2012, at 8:43 AM, Herbert Schulz wrote:
>
>>
>> On Mar 20, 2012, at 4:05 AM, Jörg Frauendiener wrote:
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>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I am wondering if anyone else has this issue: I am on Mac OSX 10.7 with TexLive 2011. For some time now when TeX-Live-Utility updates the setup I get a process which uses a huge amount of memory (6 GB and more) and 100% CPU. It looks like it is the kpsewhich command which is the cause of this. The last entry in the log file is from fmtutil-sys. My MBP cloggs up and I have to kill the process. So I am wondering what to do with this problem?
>>>
>>> Anyone knows?
>>>
>>> Cheers, Jorg
>>
>> Howdy,
>>
>> Just for the record I'm not experiencing this with OS X 10.7.3 and TeX Live Utility 0.96 (distributed with MacTeX-2011 along with TL2011).
>>
>> Have you changed paths or any TeX Live variables? Do you have lots of files and directory depth in your personal texmf tree?
>>
>> Good Luck,
>>
>> Herb Schulz
>> (herbs at wideopenwest dot com)
>
> Howdy,
>
> I also left out another item that may be relevant. Don you have multiple TeX distributions installed? Especially a Find or MacPorts installation?
>
> Could you please run
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> echo $PATH
>
> in Terminal?
>
> Good Luck,
>
> Herb Schulz
> (herbs at wideopenwest dot com)
>
>
>
>
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