<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=iso-8859-1"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">Cc: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><a href="mailto:Denis.Roegel@loria.fr" class="">Denis.Roegel@loria.fr</a><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">Date: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">12 Mar 2015 16:49:43 CET<br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">From: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">Denis Roegel <<a href="mailto:denis.roegel@loria.fr" class="">denis.roegel@loria.fr</a>><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">To: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">Taco Hoekwater <<a href="mailto:taco@elvenkind.com" class="">taco@elvenkind.com</a>><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><b class="">problem with mpost number of strings exceeded</b><br class=""></span></div><br class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;" class=""><div class="">Hi Taco,<br data-mce-bogus="1" class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I am running into a problem with a metapost file which generates about 20 files,<br class=""></div><div class="">each being about 500kb. These files use a lot of labels (with latexmp) and eventually<br class=""></div><div class="">I get metapost capacity exceeded [number of strings = 31228]<br class=""></div><div class="">(on an old distribution). I have tried to increase max_strings to 200000, pool_size to</div><div class="">more than a million, main_memory has been set to 3000000, (I changed texmf.cnf</div><div class="">and regenerated the format with fmtutil), but I still get that error.</div><div class="">What should I increase? In the worst case, I could split my file to generate a smaller</div><div class="">number of figures.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thanks,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Denis</div><div class=""> </div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></body></html>