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From: nils@guru.stgt.sub.org (Cornelis van der Laan)
Subject: Re: Disk block caching algorithm in FreeBSD 2.0/2.1
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In-Reply-To: j@narcisa.sax.de's message of 9 Mar 1995 15:28:45 +0100
Date: Sat, 11 Mar 1995 10:15:21 GMT
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In article <3jn3at$igp@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de> j@narcisa.sax.de (J Wunsch) writes:
> On the other hand, i dunno about xdvi's algorithm, but last time i've
> looked into all this dvi stuff i noticed that they queried several
> dozens of directory/filename combinations for each file. The 4.4BSD
> stat() system call is known to be slow. If you can reduce the amount
> of directories being searched for a font, this can also speedup xdvi.
It still does, but it helps very much to point xdvi (and TeX, dvips)
directly to the directories where relevant files are stored:
setenv TFMFONTS ".:/usr/local/lib/texmf/fonts/tmp/tfm"
setenv TEXFONTS ".:/usr/local/lib/texmf/fonts/tmp/pk"
setenv VFFONTS ".:/usr/local/lib/texmf/fonts/tmp/vf"
I build all my fonts with help of MakeTeXPK in the .../tmp/pk directory,
so there's no other place to look for them. Telling xdvi this fact led to
a dramatic speedup; if all needed fonts are available it starts up almost
instantly (<=3sec).
Other paths:
setenv BSTINPUTS ".:/usr/local/lib/texmf/bibtex/bst/"
setenv BIBINPUTS ".:/usr/local/lib/texmf/bibtex/bib"
setenv TEXINPUTS ".:/usr/local/lib/texmf/tex//"
setenv MFINPUTS ".:/usr/local/lib/texmf/mf//:/usr/local/lib/texmf/fonts//"
Note that the double slash at the end of a path means to search recursively
in the given directory.
Nils
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