Re: LilyPond is excessively slow on Windows Vista

[Trevor Daniels]

Simon Dahlbacka wrote Thursday, November 13, 2008 5:59 PM
> > The problem is that the problem is often hard to diagnose and
> > reproduce without having the afflicted machine at hand.  In general,
> > my takeaway from it is that shipping software on top of Windows is a
> > religious experience. You can never be sure that it works, so you have
> > to pray a lot.
>
> Fwiw, one way to diagnose on an affected machine is to have process 
> monitor
> (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896645.aspx) running
> while performing the problematic operation.

This is certainly an impressive program monitor!

> After that, it is "just" a matter of wading through a humongous amont of 
> log
> messages :)

It's not so bad - there's a very capable filtering aid available.

I can see what happens on a system that's working correctly,
but I don't have access to an afflicted system at the moment.

Trevor