Compile service slow

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Open the default new document.
2. Click compile > compile.

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
I expect it to run in about 5 seconds. Instead, it took almost a minute. For my 
main document, which is much longer, it hasn't finished in minutes. I believe 
that the compiler service has slowed or stopped.

It is 10:25 AM East Coast Time, and the date is 4/25/2011. If it matter, I'm 
using Firefox on OS X.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by shade...@gmail.com on 25 Apr 2011 at 2:26

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I *always* have the same problem, and end up using an external online compiler. 
But lately even one-page documents fail to compile in 30 seconds and result in 
an error (timeout) message.

Original comment by jeporc...@gmail.com on 14 Jul 2011 at 10:01

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same here, 
unended compilations
annoying: only reason for me not to be able to use it as a powerful tex editor 
wysiwyg like

Original comment by ior...@gmail.com on 20 Jan 2012 at 8:59

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This is very annoying. It's the same for me.

Original comment by jerm...@gmail.com on 6 May 2012 at 2:45

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Did someone changed something? It seems quite fast for me right now.

Original comment by jerm...@gmail.com on 18 May 2012 at 4:18