Re: Lilypond making my Macbook Pro run slow

[Tim McNamara]

You can check on this by using the Activity Monitor (in the Finder, Go menu > 
Utilities > Activity Monitor).  If you sort alphabetically you can easily find 
Lilypond and see whether it is demanding a lot of CPU cycles, hogging memory 
and/or spawning a lot of subprocesses that are slowing things down.

There's no reason to keep Lilypond open, however, unless you are using the 
built-in text editor and there are frankly much better options for writing .ly 
files (Smultron, Fraise, Emacs, etc.).

Tim


On Jul 5, 2011, at 9:27 AM, Nick wrote:

> Hello.
> 
> I'm new to Lilypond and going through the tutorial right now.
> One thing I'm noticing is that whenever Lilypond is open
> (even just sitting idly in the background), my computer runs
> noticeably slower. It's a new MacBook Pro, 8 gigs of RAM.
> It can run Logic, Sibelius, many tabs of Chrome, Mail,
> etc. etc. without slowing down at all, so I'm wondering
> what Lilypond is doing that's so memory intensive and
> how I can fix it. The Lilypond I downloaded is 2.15.4. Any ideas?