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Re: Sudden "cannot allocate memory" error


From: Aaron Dalton
Subject: Re: Sudden "cannot allocate memory" error
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2010 15:36:24 -0400 (EDT)
User-agent: Alpine 1.00 (DEB 882 2007-12-20)

On Wed, 17 Mar 2010, Graham Percival wrote:

On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 7:19 PM,  <address@hidden> wrote:
I have had no problems whatsoever up until today.  Lilypond-book compiles
the first madrigal fine, but when it goes to do a second (order doesn't
seem to matter), I get the above error.

You could try altering the LILYPOND_GC_YIELD environment variable
(discussed in the AU or Usage manual; see "command-line usage").

Also, start commenting things out until you have the smallest possible
file that demonstrates this problem.  If you start doing this, you'll
probably discovered that you have something weird like
 \repeat 22 {blah blah}
instead of
 \repeat 2 {blah blah}


UItimately, computers are not magic; if it used to work, then look at
all the changes you made between versions.  You *do* store your thesis
in svn or git or something like that, right?  :)
(failing that, look at the last time you made backups... or just start
commenting stuff out)


Thank you for your help, Graham. I *do* use SVN thankfully. You couldn't manage a big project like this without it. At least, I have no idea how all these other students do! What is odd to me is I can build all the scores fine independently (using just "lilypond"). I've added some new lilypond fragments to one of my chapters, so I'm trying to see if I can find a problem there (even though that's not where lilypond-book is dying). I'll let you know if I find anything.

Thanks again for your time.
Aaron

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