Re: problems with long files

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

2007/5/4, Nicolas Sceaux <address@hidden>:
> 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.

There have been some reports that somewhere in the recent 2.11
versions, the memory use has regressed. This is probably not related
to Page breaking.

I'll have a look over the weekend to see if I can see anything.

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