Posted by Ronan on Jun 14, 2007 in Uncategorized | 0 comments
I’ve had some issues with eps and compiling LaTeX documents over the past while. Every time I’d compile my tex document, dvips or gs seem to take forever. Also eps thumbnails were slow to show up in nautilus. I monitored what was going on and I found that gs was leaking memory and eating all available resources. chomp chomp chomp == very slow machine.
But here is a fix!
sudo apt-get install gs-gpl
which is an alternative gs package
sudo update-alternatives –set gs /usr/bin/gs-gpl
apparently this is resolved in 7.10 and a back port is being prepared for Feisty.