Re: Error when compiling a large file

[James]

Hello,

On 20 February 2013 07:56, ArnoldTheresius <address@hidden> wrote:

> Miguel Jesus wrote
> > James,
> >
> > I couldn't get it to compile even when I try to compile th whole score.
> >
> > That means the problem is on my side. I have to check the jEdit
> > definitions to see if there is something going wrong. Do you (or anyone
> > else) have any ideas on what might cause this problem? I tried to run it
> > as an admin in case windows was being funny just because of that but it
> > didn't solve it.
> >
> > Once again, thanks for the reply!
> >
> > Miguel
> >
> >  ...
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> Hello,
>
> have you allready tried to tune lilyponds (scheme's) memory usage with the
> environment variable LILYPOND_GC_YIELD?
> Since I'm usising Win7/64 Ultimate with much more than 4 GB RAM i use a
> value of 100.
> In the past, on WindowsNT with only 192 MB RAM I reduced it to approx. 45
> just to prevent swapping.
>
>
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.17/Documentation/usage-big-page#environment-variables

Just in case someone asked.

:)

Although I am not sure how I use that 'variable'. Is it in the command on
the CLI itself or can I put it in my .ly file somewhere?

Could you give an example of how you use it?

Thanks

James