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jirka

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Jan 4, 2005, 9:31:42 AM1/4/05
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About 50% of the time my miktex latex compilation is incredibly slow
(2-5min), the other 50% of the time the compilation takes about 2-3s. I
see every single letter of the log printed. The compilation triggers
some system process csrss.exe. This did not happen with older versions
of Miktex (year or so back, before the package manager occured etc).

I do not have an exceptional system but not a slow one (P-Celeron
3GHz,750MB, Win XP), all other programs (Java IDE, etc) run without
problems, and I checked all the usual culprints (defragmentation,...).
Does anybody have an idea whats going on?

Thanks
Jirka

Dan Luecking

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Jan 4, 2005, 4:46:45 PM1/4/05
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Possibly automatic package installation is being triggered?
It will take a while to download and install a package, even on a
fast connection.


Dan

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Hans Fredrik Nordhaug

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Jan 5, 2005, 2:20:34 AM1/5/05
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On 2005-01-04, Dan Luecking <Look-...@uark.edu> wrote:
> On 4 Jan 2005 06:31:42 -0800, "jirka" <jirka...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>About 50% of the time my miktex latex compilation is incredibly slow
>>(2-5min), the other 50% of the time the compilation takes about 2-3s. I
>>see every single letter of the log printed. The compilation triggers
>>some system process csrss.exe. This did not happen with older versions
>>of Miktex (year or so back, before the package manager occured etc).
>>
>>I do not have an exceptional system but not a slow one (P-Celeron
>>3GHz,750MB, Win XP), all other programs (Java IDE, etc) run without
>>problems, and I checked all the usual culprints (defragmentation,...).
>>Does anybody have an idea whats going on?
>
> Possibly automatic package installation is being triggered?
> It will take a while to download and install a package, even on a
> fast connection.

I would think so too.

Hans

PS! http://www.liutilities.com/products/wintaskspro/processlibrary/csrss/

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jirka

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Jan 5, 2005, 11:45:55 AM1/5/05
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Thanks, but I have the automatic loading disabled. Moreover, this
happens DURING compilation of the packages (even my own packages that
are not downloadable from anywhere) - I see every single letter of the
log printed one after another. Then when it's finally over, I compile
it again and it takes 3 s, and again and it takes again 5 min.

Robin Fairbairns

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Jan 5, 2005, 3:00:22 PM1/5/05
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so what does a full virus scan show? or a spyware scan?
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jirka

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Jan 5, 2005, 6:28:41 PM1/5/05
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I do not have any viruses, or spyware (I use Norton Antivirus and
Firewall, regularly update; I do not use Internet Explorer, Outlook, MS
Office). And, this is the only program that is so slow.

Morten Høgholm

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Jan 6, 2005, 5:30:53 AM1/6/05
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Have you tried with DebugView running? That's what the troubleshooting
area of the MiKTeX homepage instructs you to.
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