Setup 2.774 texlive postinstall takes 10+ hours (resending due to cygwin bounce)

Sat Aug 25 06:47:00 GMT 2012

On 8/23/2012 7:35 AM, Ken Brown wrote:
> On 8/23/2012 6:03 AM, Martin.Fitzpatrick@sita.aero wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have just completed a cygwin install, which seemed to take an
>> extraordinary length of time, so I started googling and found the article
>> "Setup 1.7.11 texlive postinstall takes 6+ hours". Ken Brown's
>> response to
>> that post was hopeful, but may have underestimated the scope of the
>> problem, putting it down to "something else going on with your system,
>> maybe having to do with your VM." My installation was on a laptop, not a
>> VM, and while I wouldn't claim that it's a powerful machine, I'm still
>> very surprised at the install time. I also think it remarkable that most
>> (something like 90%) of the install time was spent in the texlive
>> postinstall phase; so in other words, most of the install ran at an
>> acceptable speed (~16 mins to get to the start of the postinstall phase-
>> not too bad for a slow laptop) but the first texlive task
>> ("/etc/postinstall/texlive-collection-basic.sh") then took 25 mins- more
>> than the rest of the install up to that point.
>>
>> So, I would say to Ken Brown- "Keep up the good work"- but please
>> consider
>> raising its priority! At the time of writing you had fixed 29 postinstall
>
> There is definitely some inefficiency in the postinstall scripts when
> many texlive-collection-* packages are installed at once.  I'm working
> on finding a better way of doing it.  See the thread starting at
>
>    http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2012-08/msg00001.html
>
>> scripts and there were 45 remaining. Some users are being hit very
>> hard by
>> this and in fact I aborted the install several times before I realized
>> that it wasn't hanging completely and that the postfix to the
>> "/etc/postinstall/texlive-..." message in the install window was actually
>> changing from time to time- it was that slow! I can send the
>> setup.log.full if you want to see the timestamps for yourself.
>
> Yes, I would like to see setup.log.full.  If it's huge, you can send it
> off list, or just post it somewhere for me to download.

Thanks for sending me your setup.log.full.  I've extracted the timing 
information for the texlive-collection-* postinstall scripts (see the 
attached).  I saw 5 postinstall scripts that took inordinately long 
(marked with ***):

texlive-collection-fontsextra.sh
texlive-collection-fontsrecommended.sh
texlive-collection-formatsextra.sh
texlive-collection-htmlxml.sh
texlive-collection-langcjk.sh

I don't see anything in those scripts that would explain this.  I just 
ran them manually on my system, and the times (in minutes) were  14, 3, 
2.5, 2.5, and 7.  So I can't think of any explanation except that 
something on your system (anti-virus or other BLODA?) was interfering.

Ken
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2012/08/22 21:59:02 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile "/etc/postinstall/texlive-collection-basic.sh"
2012/08/22 22:24:04 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile "/etc/postinstall/brltty.sh"
2012/08/22 22:27:32 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile "/etc/postinstall/texlive-collection-bibtexextra-doc.sh"
2012/08/22 22:27:37 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile "/etc/postinstall/texlive-collection-bibtexextra.sh"
2012/08/22 22:27:43 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile "/etc/postinstall/texlive-collection-binextra-doc.sh"
2012/08/22 22:27:48 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile "/etc/postinstall/texlive-collection-binextra.sh"
2012/08/22 22:27:53 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile "/etc/postinstall/texlive-collection-context-doc.sh"
2012/08/22 22:27:58 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile "/etc/postinstall/texlive-collection-context.sh"
2012/08/22 22:42:32 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile "/etc/postinstall/texlive-collection-documentation-arabic.sh"
2012/08/22 22:42:51 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile "/etc/postinstall/texlive-collection-documentation-bulgarian.sh"
2012/08/22 22:43:02 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile "/etc/postinstall/texlive-collection-documentation-chinese.sh"
2012/08/22 22:43:22 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile "/etc/postinstall/texlive-collection-documentation-czechslovak.sh"
2012/08/22 22:43:34 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile "/etc/postinstall/texlive-collection-documentation-dutch.sh"
2012/08/22 22:44:02 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile "/etc/postinstall/texlive-collection-documentation-english.sh"
2012/08/22 22:44:31 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile "/etc/postinstall/texlive-collection-documentation-finnish.sh"
2012/08/22 22:45:04 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile "/etc/postinstall/texlive-collection-documentation-french.sh"
2012/08/22 22:45:41 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile "/etc/postinstall/texlive-collection-documentation-german.sh"
2012/08/22 22:46:13 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile "/etc/postinstall/texlive-collection-documentation-italian.sh"
2012/08/22 22:47:02 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile "/etc/postinstall/texlive-collection-documentation-japanese.sh"
2012/08/22 22:48:13 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile "/etc/postinstall/texlive-collection-documentation-korean.sh"
2012/08/22 22:48:54 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile "/etc/postinstall/texlive-collection-documentation-mongolian.sh"
2012/08/22 22:49:00 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile "/etc/postinstall/texlive-collection-documentation-polish.sh"
2012/08/22 22:49:13 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile "/etc/postinstall/texlive-collection-documentation-portuguese.sh"
2012/08/22 22:49:26 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile "/etc/postinstall/texlive-collection-documentation-russian.sh"
2012/08/22 22:49:46 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile "/etc/postinstall/texlive-collection-documentation-serbian.sh"
2012/08/22 22:49:51 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile "/etc/postinstall/texlive-collection-documentation-slovenian.sh"
2012/08/22 22:50:19 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile "/etc/postinstall/texlive-collection-documentation-spanish.sh"
2012/08/22 22:51:05 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile "/etc/postinstall/texlive-collection-documentation-thai.sh"
2012/08/22 22:51:59 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile "/etc/postinstall/texlive-collection-documentation-turkish.sh"
2012/08/22 22:52:38 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile "/etc/postinstall/texlive-collection-documentation-ukrainian.sh"
2012/08/22 22:53:01 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile "/etc/postinstall/texlive-collection-documentation-vietnamese.sh"
2012/08/22 22:53:18 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile "/etc/postinstall/texlive-collection-fontsextra-doc.sh"
***2012/08/22 22:53:24 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile "/etc/postinstall/texlive-collection-fontsextra.sh"
2012/08/23 02:40:30 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile "/etc/postinstall/texlive-collection-fontsrecommended-doc.sh"
***2012/08/23 02:41:36 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile "/etc/postinstall/texlive-collection-fontsrecommended.sh"
2012/08/23 03:42:53 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile "/etc/postinstall/texlive-collection-fontutils-doc.sh"
2012/08/23 03:44:01 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile "/etc/postinstall/texlive-collection-fontutils.sh"
***2012/08/23 03:45:07 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile "/etc/postinstall/texlive-collection-formatsextra.sh"
2012/08/23 04:44:14 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile "/etc/postinstall/texlive-collection-games.sh"
2012/08/23 04:45:34 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile "/etc/postinstall/texlive-collection-genericextra-doc.sh"
2012/08/23 04:45:39 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile "/etc/postinstall/texlive-collection-genericextra.sh"
2012/08/23 04:45:45 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile "/etc/postinstall/texlive-collection-genericrecommended-doc.sh"
2012/08/23 04:45:50 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile "/etc/postinstall/texlive-collection-genericrecommended.sh"
***2012/08/23 04:45:55 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile "/etc/postinstall/texlive-collection-htmlxml.sh"
2012/08/23 05:41:03 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile "/etc/postinstall/texlive-collection-humanities-doc.sh"
2012/08/23 05:41:56 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile "/etc/postinstall/texlive-collection-humanities.sh"
2012/08/23 05:43:04 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile "/etc/postinstall/texlive-collection-langafrican.sh"
2012/08/23 05:56:56 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile "/etc/postinstall/texlive-collection-langarabic.sh"
***2012/08/23 05:58:24 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile "/etc/postinstall/texlive-collection-langcjk.sh"
2012/08/23 07:19:52 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile "/etc/postinstall/texlive-collection-langcroatian.sh"
2012/08/23 07:19:57 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile "/etc/postinstall/texlive-collection-langcyrillic.sh"
2012/08/23 07:43:51 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile "/etc/postinstall/texlive-collection-langczechslovak.sh"
2012/08/23 07:52:30 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile "/etc/postinstall/texlive-collection-langfinnish.sh"
2012/08/23 07:52:35 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile "/etc/postinstall/texlive-collection-langfrench.sh"
2012/08/23 07:53:48 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile "/etc/postinstall/texlive-collection-langgerman.sh"
2012/08/23 07:53:53 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile "/etc/postinstall/texlive-collection-langgreek.sh"
2012/08/23 07:56:09 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile "/etc/postinstall/texlive-collection-langhebrew.sh"
2012/08/23 07:57:21 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile "/etc/postinstall/texlive-collection-langhungarian.sh"
2012/08/23 07:57:26 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile "/etc/postinstall/texlive-collection-langindic.sh"
2012/08/23 07:58:59 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile "/etc/postinstall/texlive-collection-langitalian.sh"
2012/08/23 07:59:04 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile "/etc/postinstall/texlive-collection-langlithuanian.sh"
2012/08/23 07:59:50 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile "/etc/postinstall/texlive-collection-langmongolian.sh"
2012/08/23 08:01:02 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile "/etc/postinstall/texlive-collection-langpolish.sh"
2012/08/23 08:07:52 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile "/etc/postinstall/texlive-collection-langportuguese.sh"
2012/08/23 08:07:57 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile "/etc/postinstall/texlive-collection-langspanish.sh"
2012/08/23 08:08:02 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile "/etc/postinstall/texlive-collection-langswedish.sh"
2012/08/23 08:08:07 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile "/etc/postinstall/texlive-collection-langtibetan.sh"
2012/08/23 08:08:13 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile "/etc/postinstall/texlive-collection-langturkmen.sh"
2012/08/23 08:08:18 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile "/etc/postinstall/texlive-collection-langvietnamese.sh"
2012/08/23 08:11:02 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile "/etc/postinstall/texlive-collection-latex-doc.sh"
2012/08/23 08:11:07 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile "/etc/postinstall/texlive-collection-latex.sh"
2012/08/23 08:21:30 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile "/etc/postinstall/texlive-collection-latexextra-doc.sh"
2012/08/23 08:21:35 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile "/etc/postinstall/texlive-collection-latexextra.sh"
2012/08/23 08:23:14 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile "/etc/postinstall/texlive-collection-latexrecommended-doc.sh"
2012/08/23 08:23:20 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile "/etc/postinstall/texlive-collection-latexrecommended.sh"
2012/08/23 08:23:25 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile "/etc/postinstall/texlive-collection-luatex-doc.sh"
2012/08/23 08:23:30 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile "/etc/postinstall/texlive-collection-luatex.sh"
2012/08/23 08:23:35 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile "/etc/postinstall/texlive-collection-mathextra-doc.sh"
2012/08/23 08:23:40 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile "/etc/postinstall/texlive-collection-mathextra.sh"
2012/08/23 08:26:55 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile "/etc/postinstall/texlive-collection-metapost-doc.sh"
2012/08/23 08:27:00 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile "/etc/postinstall/texlive-collection-metapost.sh"
2012/08/23 08:28:15 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile "/etc/postinstall/texlive-collection-music-doc.sh"
2012/08/23 08:28:20 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile "/etc/postinstall/texlive-collection-music.sh"
2012/08/23 08:29:32 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile "/etc/postinstall/texlive-collection-omega.sh"
2012/08/23 08:34:21 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile "/etc/postinstall/texlive-collection-pictures-doc.sh"
2012/08/23 08:34:26 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile "/etc/postinstall/texlive-collection-pictures.sh"
2012/08/23 08:35:52 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile "/etc/postinstall/texlive-collection-plainextra.sh"
2012/08/23 08:35:57 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile "/etc/postinstall/texlive-collection-pstricks-doc.sh"
2012/08/23 08:36:03 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile "/etc/postinstall/texlive-collection-pstricks.sh"
2012/08/23 08:36:09 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile "/etc/postinstall/texlive-collection-publishers-doc.sh"
2012/08/23 08:36:14 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile "/etc/postinstall/texlive-collection-publishers.sh"
2012/08/23 08:36:20 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile "/etc/postinstall/texlive-collection-science-doc.sh"
2012/08/23 08:36:25 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile "/etc/postinstall/texlive-collection-science.sh"
2012/08/23 08:37:38 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile "/etc/postinstall/texlive-collection-texinfo.sh"
2012/08/23 08:37:43 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile "/etc/postinstall/texlive-collection-xetex-doc.sh"
2012/08/23 08:37:49 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile "/etc/postinstall/texlive-collection-xetex.sh"
2012/08/23 08:42:34 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile "/etc/postinstall/TeXmacs.sh"

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