Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1468 mails)

[Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2009-06-03 at 16:48 +0200, Dr. Werner Fink wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 10:04:49AM -0400, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> > On Wed, 2009-06-03 at 12:41 +0200, Dr. Werner Fink wrote:
> > > The version 8.62 has an completly rewritten pdfwrite API which is much
> > > more compatible with the PDF standard.  Beside this it can handle much
> > > more PostScript code fid out there.  This cause the longer compilation
> > > time. 
> > A 400% increase for a small (135KB) file and from 4 seconds to hours for
> > a 3MB file?
> I'm only the maintainer of ghostscript *not* one of the developers nor
> authors.

> > > if this version hangs on your file you may use
> > >        strace -p `pidof gs`
> > > to see what happens here.
> > Just a constant stream of -
> > ...
> > write(6, "x\234330P0PH1\340*\3442\4\261\f\24\240Tr\256\202S\10\227~\220
> > \5P\300@"..., 60) = 60
> > brk(0xf959000)                          = 0xf959000
> > brk(0xf949000)                          = 0xf949000
> > brk(0xf948000)                          = 0xf948000
> > brk(0xf96f000)                          = 0xf96f000
> > write(6, "x\234330P0PH1\340*\3442\4\261\f\24\240Tr\256\202S\10\227~\220
> > \5P\300@"..., 60) = 60
> > brk(0xf95f000)                          = 0xf95f000
> > brk(0xf94f000)                          = 0xf94f000
> > brk(0xf94e000)                          = 0xf94e000
> > brk(0xf975000)                          = 0xf975000
> > write(6, "x\234330P0PH1\340*\3442\4\261\f\24\240Tr\256\202S\10\227~\220
> > \5P\300@"..., 60) = 60
> > brk(0xf965000)                          = 0xf965000
> > brk(0xf955000)                          = 0xf955000
> > brk(0xf954000)                          = 0xf954000
> > brk(0xf975000)                          = 0xf975000
> > write(6, "x\234330P0PH1\340*\3442\4\261\f\24\240Tr\256\202S\10\227~\220
> > \5P\300@"..., 60) = 60
> > ...
> looks like gs is writing out the resulting pdf and this seems
> to take some time ... btw: how fast is your disk.

Both machines (10.3 vs 11.1) are identical;  they are virtual machines
on ESX servers connected to an EMC SAN.

>  Try out to use /dev/null as OutputFile, does this go faster?
> You may also replace
>    -c .setpdfwrite
> with
>    -dCompressFonts=true -dMaxInlineImageSize=0 -c '.setpdfwrite 300000000 
> setvmthreshold'
> if you have enough memory available in your system. 

Will test.

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