[pdftex] Re: [tex-live] mem-error with pdfetex and context

[Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini]

Hallo Thomas!

I got the following error with pdfetex from TeX Live 7, tetex installed
completly on disk!

> >This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.14159-1.00b-pretest-20020211-2.1 (Web2C
7.3.7x)
> >fatal: memory exhausted (xmalloc of 60000008 bytes).
> >
> >               run time : 1 seconds
> >
> >         total run time : 4 seconds
> >---------------------------------------------------------------

Hans Hagen wrote:

> > run
> >
> >    kpsewhich texmf.cnf
> >
> > locate the context section
> >
> > decrease some mem values (main mem for instance)
> >
> > regenerate formats with texexec --make (optionally --alone)
> >
> > see if there's a change in the malloc message
> >
> > Hans
>

The result was:

> >If I decrease main_memory from 1500000 to 1000000
> >then pdfetex needs only 56000008 Bytes (60000008 bevor)
> >this is a factor 8!
> >
> >Why 8? If main_memory is given in words (longwords)  I would expect a
> >factor 2 (4), but not 8!
> >ok, let it be quadwords!
> >
> >Then I decreased further mem_bot from 4000000 to 3000000
> >pdfetex now needs 48000008 Bytes
> >this is a factor 8 too!
> >
> >The remaining 48000008 Bytes divided by 8 means 6000000 words? I have to
> >set everything to zero then!?
> >
> >It looks as if there is no memory at all!
> >
> >In what units are all the memory entrys given?
>
>memory words = 8 in this case
>
>i think that olaf / thomas can explain this best
>
>Hans
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Do you have any idea was is wrong?

Wolfgang