Re: strange_exit

[David Bobroff]

Joe Neeman wrote:
> On Fri, 16 Nov 2007 18:18:50 David Bobroff wrote:
> > I had a strange exit from a LilyPond run.  I've never seen this before.
> >   I was running a collection of nearly 70 etudes.  It appeared to be
> > running just fine.  I got lots of "Preprocessing..." and
> > "Interpreting..." etc. and then when it got to "Fitting music on 86 or87
> > pages..." it didn't progress any further for a long time.  I let it run
> > overnight to see if Lily just needed more time to think about it.  When
> > I got up in the morning I found this:
>
> As Hans said, the error means that you ran out of memory. Does it help if you 
> use the minimal page-breaking algorithm as described in section 11.4.5 of the 
> manual?
>
> Joe

Uh..yuh.  That did it.  Thanks!  After Hans commented about memory I 
tried running my file again with the Task Manager open showing 
performance stats.  When LilyPond got to the page calculation and didn't 
progress further I saw the Page File Usage climb steadily upwards.  This 
box has 2Gb of physical RAM and I shut down Lily when it got up to about 
1.93Gb of usage.  Then I used your suggestion about minimal page 
breaking and not only did it work but it cut down the processing time to 
under three minutes.

-David