Re: large source occupying on myfinal composition

[Neil Thornock]

Not that this is very *helpful* but when I've had this situation, I
process the first half of the score separate from the second half,
adjusting page numbers if needed.  I had to do this with my orchestra
piece -- it ended up saving an hour of processing time!

On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 4:51 AM, Graham Percival
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> There are some attempts to optimize the speed; one simple patch
> reduces the time required by something like 40%.  But you should
> expect such problems from an unstable development version.
>
> Cheers,
> - Graham
>
> On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 06:22:56PM +0800, 胡海鹏 - Hu Haipeng wrote:
>>    Hello,
>>      I finally finish my concert overture, which has just 250 measures, 34
>>    pages. The compiling is a nightmare! When I used normal way, the computer
>>    turned into a circumstance like it was about to crash. Then I used Process
>>    Tamer, a small util program to reduce source wasting. At first, it's ok to
>>    do anything while compiling, but after 5 minutes, the computer again
>>    became very slow. Then I went away to listen to The Firebird. After its 45
>>    minutes' music, Lilypond was still compiling. I checked the task manager,
>>    and found it first used around 120M of RAM, but then continuous ascend to
>>    over 520M, and then fall to 330M, and up to 472... After another about 50
>>    minutes, The score was at last ready. The whole process took about 110
>>    minutes!!! I'd like to know why Lilypond should use such a large memory,
>>    since cpu is not taken too much (but instead, "system idle process.exe"
>>    took very large percent (up to 94%) of cpu). I think I must buy a Win7
>>    machine with 4 core cpu and 8gb RAM, otherwise I can't write a piece like
>>    The Firebird, which will burn my current machine into dust :-)
>>    Regards
>>    Haipeng
>>
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Neil Thornock, D.M.
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Brigham Young University