Re: problems with long files

[Nicolas Sceaux]

Joe Neeman <address@hidden> writes:

> I recently discovered that the new page-breaking algorithm is slow when there 
> are many small scores. As a workaround, put
> \paper {
>   #(define page-breaking optimal-page-breaks)
> }
> at the top of the file.

I've recently faced the case where the page breaker (or so it seems)
actually does not finish its job. That was with a ~100-score book, on a
machine with 3Gbytes of RAM, with LilyPond 2.11.23. After the last
"Preprocessing graphical objects...", the lilypond process uses ~1Gbyte
of memory, then slowly increases up to using all the memory available,
wthout finishing.

nicolas