Re: Slow machines

[Mats Bengtsson]

>       Lilypond on my home computer (IBM PR233 with only 16MB RAM) runs
> not very quickly but in reasonable time on couple pages of easy music.
> But when ly2dvi runs LaTeX there is several minutes of active swaping,
> (-V option exposes that it is parsing some /usr/share/lilypond/tex
> files) then it says "!there is no line to end" and exits. What's wrong?

Unfortunately, Lilypond is fairly hungry on memory. 
However, you shouldn't get that error message unless
you run out of swap. Thus, increasing the swap might
help but each compilation will run forever, swapping 
in and out. I really recommend bying some more RAM, 
at home I have an even slower machine (166MHz), but 
with 92MB of RAM it handles even some large orchestral
scores in reasonable time.

  /Mats