[TxMt] CPU eating Textmate/Skim bug

Nicholas Cole nicholas.cole at gmail.com
Tue Mar 30 17:43:01 UTC 2010


Dear List,

I have a strange bug to report.  Using 10.6.3, Textmate and Skim
together (via the LaTeX bundle)  seems to trigger a nasty bug in OS X.
 As far as I can tell, it is triggered when skim reloads a changed PDF
file, but I haven't been able to completely reliably find out exactly
what triggers it.  At first I thought it was to do with the pdfsync
functionality, but then I noticed it could be triggered simply if the
files changed.  Whatever is causing it, once triggered any new process
on the machine will use up 100% of the CPU.  The only way to get
things back to normal is to log out of the user account and back in
again.

I realise that this is a very sketchy bug report - I'm posting it here
in the hopes that someone else has run into it and has managed to work
out exactly what is causing it better than I have.  I'm not even sure
if the fault lies with skim or with textmate or with the latex bundle.

Best wishes,

Nicholas



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