RE: Lilypond making my Macbook Pro run slow

[James Lowe]

Hello,
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From: address@hidden address@hidden on behalf of Tim McNamara address@hidden
Sent: 05 July 2011 17:56
To: LilyPond User
Subject: Re: Lilypond making my Macbook Pro run slow

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.).

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What exactly does 'keep lilypond open' mean in this context? It just runs once, 
sprouts a pdf and then stops. That's why I can't understand what else would be 
running unless we have a memory leak somewhere?

LilyPad is as far as I can see a very lightweight editor (and much easier to 
use than bother with mucking about with plug ins for things like Smultron which 
just got in the way).

You leave LilyPad alone! :P She's done me proud and I wouldn't use anything 
else on a Mac (thanks to whoever came up with that BTW).

:)

James