From: Martin.Fitzpatrick@sita.aero
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Cc: david@daku.org
Subject: Setup 2.774 texlive postinstall takes 10+ hours (resending due to cygwin bounce)
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2012 11:35:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <OFA2E38712.9EC3C033-ON80257A63.0036C097-80257A63.0037387A@LocalDomain> (raw)
Hi,
I have just completed a cygwin install, which seemed to take an
extraordinary length of time, so I started googling and found the article
"Setup 1.7.11 texlive postinstall takes 6+ hours". Ken Brown's response to
that post was hopeful, but may have underestimated the scope of the
problem, putting it down to "something else going on with your system,
maybe having to do with your VM." My installation was on a laptop, not a
VM, and while I wouldn't claim that it's a powerful machine, I'm still
very surprised at the install time. I also think it remarkable that most
(something like 90%) of the install time was spent in the texlive
postinstall phase; so in other words, most of the install ran at an
acceptable speed (~16 mins to get to the start of the postinstall phase-
not too bad for a slow laptop) but the first texlive task
("/etc/postinstall/texlive-collection-basic.sh") then took 25 mins- more
than the rest of the install up to that point.
So, I would say to Ken Brown- "Keep up the good work"- but please consider
raising its priority! At the time of writing you had fixed 29 postinstall
scripts and there were 45 remaining. Some users are being hit very hard by
this and in fact I aborted the install several times before I realized
that it wasn't hanging completely and that the postfix to the
"/etc/postinstall/texlive-..." message in the install window was actually
changing from time to time- it was that slow! I can send the
setup.log.full if you want to see the timestamps for yourself.
Regards,
Martin.
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Thread overview: 54+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-08-23 11:35 Martin.Fitzpatrick [this message]
2012-08-23 13:29 ` Earnie Boyd
2012-08-23 14:35 ` Adam Dinwoodie
2012-08-23 15:27 ` Ken Brown
2012-08-25 6:47 ` Ken Brown
2012-08-25 7:26 ` Achim Gratz
2013-01-28 16:42 ` toddcs
2013-01-29 3:41 ` Ken Brown
2013-02-05 15:48 ` jeremycraven
2013-02-05 16:37 ` marco atzeri
2013-02-05 16:43 ` Ken Brown
2013-02-06 9:52 ` jeremycraven
2013-02-06 14:11 ` Ken Brown
2014-07-20 14:01 ` leftwing
2014-07-20 17:44 ` Ken Brown
2014-10-20 22:39 ` Setup 2.774 texlive postinstall takes 10+ hours Don MacDougall
2014-10-21 2:09 ` Ken Brown
2014-10-21 2:26 ` Ken Brown
2014-10-21 4:06 ` Don MacDougall
2014-10-21 12:58 ` Ken Brown
2014-10-24 7:11 ` Don MacDougall
2014-10-24 11:35 ` Andrey Repin
2014-10-29 5:06 ` Don MacDougall
2014-10-29 12:20 ` Andrey Repin
2014-10-30 22:27 ` Don MacDougall
2014-11-02 18:02 ` Ken Brown
2014-11-03 10:25 ` Corinna Vinschen
2014-11-03 12:44 ` Ken Brown
2014-11-03 14:52 ` Corinna Vinschen
2014-11-03 16:17 ` Corinna Vinschen
2014-11-03 18:03 ` Achim Gratz
2014-11-03 22:04 ` Ken Brown
2014-11-04 16:21 ` Achim Gratz
2014-11-04 9:00 ` Corinna Vinschen
2014-11-11 4:23 ` Yaakov Selkowitz
2014-11-11 4:33 ` Yaakov Selkowitz
2014-11-11 11:53 ` Corinna Vinschen
2014-11-11 14:14 ` Ken Brown
2014-11-11 15:02 ` Ken Brown
2014-11-11 16:02 ` Corinna Vinschen
2014-11-11 17:08 ` Achim Gratz
2014-11-11 17:33 ` Corinna Vinschen
2014-11-11 18:39 ` Achim Gratz
2014-11-11 23:36 ` Ken Brown
2014-11-12 9:15 ` Corinna Vinschen
2014-11-12 17:53 ` Achim Gratz
2014-11-13 8:55 ` Corinna Vinschen
2014-11-13 19:41 ` Achim Gratz
2014-11-13 14:18 ` Setup 2.774 texlive postinstall takes 10+ hours) Corinna Vinschen
2014-11-13 15:45 ` Ken Brown
2014-11-13 16:18 ` Corinna Vinschen
2014-11-13 19:47 ` Achim Gratz
2014-10-21 3:23 ` Setup 2.774 texlive postinstall takes 10+ hours (resending due to cygwin bounce) Don MacDougall
2014-10-21 3:40 ` Don MacDougall
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