Re: Sudden "cannot allocate memory" error

[Ralph Palmer]

Greetings, Aaron -

I found I had the same problem running Lilypond 2.12 under Ubuntu. It occurred when I reached a certain number of scores in a single .ly file. I was able to continue working on the project by commenting out most of the scores and just working on a few. Actually, the PostScript (.ps) file compiled, and it was only the .pdf that was not produced. I found that, although it took much longer, I could still produce the .pdf by waiting until the .ps file was produced and I got the "cannot allocate memory" message. Then I ran ps2pdf on the .ps file and got my .pdf with no problem.

Hope this helps,

Ralph

On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 3:36 PM, Aaron Dalton <address@hidden> wrote:

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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