Re: [MiKTeX] --main-memory

[Cornelius C. N. <no...@it...>]

On Thu, 10 Jan 2008, Alexander Grahn wrote:

> Hi,
>
> the --main-memory=<...> option seems to be non-functional.
>
> Compiling the minimal example (hello.tex)
>
>  \documentclass{article}
>  \begin{document}
>  Hello World!
>  \end{document}
>
> using
>
>  latex hello
> or
>  latex --main-memory=2000000 hello
>
> always gives:
>
> hello.log:
>  <...>
>  Here is how much of TeX's memory you used:
>   201 strings out of 95341
>   2059 string characters out of 1182827
>   45926 words of memory out of 1500000
>   3472 multiletter control sequences out of 110000
>   3640 words of font info for 14 fonts,
>        out of 1200000 for 2000
>   14 hyphenation exceptions out of 8191
>   23i,4n,17p,134b,107s stack positions out of
>   5000i,500n,10000p,200000b,5000s
>
> Any suggestions? Thanks and Regards,
> Alexander
>
Recently, in some email Christian Schenk pointed out the
largest (hard-programmed) value of main memory in
MikTeX 2.6/2.7 . I don't remember what that was,
but 2 000 000 looks excessively large to me, and your error
messages seem to indicate (to me) that you went beyond that
maximum.

And besides, why would you want such a large main memory ??
To quote Leslie Lamport: ``Before you panic, remember
that the least likely cause of this error is TeX not having
the capacity to process your document ...''

ccn.
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