Re: GS error on somewhat large score

[Simon Albrecht]

On 16.10.2017 18:50, David Kastrup wrote:
> Simon Albrecht <address@hidden> writes:
> > On 16.10.2017 17:13, David Kastrup wrote:
> > > Simon Albrecht <address@hidden> writes:
> > > > Hello everybody,
> > > >
> > > > I’ve just noticed a problem when compiling a medium to large score (44
> > > > pages of output) with 2.19.65: everything is fine until GS fails with
> > > > the message
> > > > warning: g_spawn_sync failed (0): gs: Failed to fork (Cannot allocate
> > > > memory).
> > > > Compiling the 3–5 page bookparts individually is no problem.
> > > >
> > > > Does this ring a bell with anybody? or
> > > > How should I further investigate the problem? or
> > > > Would anybody be interested in getting the file privately to investigate?
> > > It might be worth mentioning what kind of system and which Ghostscript
> > > you are seeing this problem with.
> > Ubuntu 16.04.
> This is great.  Now we only need to know your system architecture
> (64bit? 32bit? arm? x86?), whether you installed the system version of
> LilyPond or a predistributed binary or compiled something yourself, your
> Ghostscript version.

$ uname -m
x86_64

I already said that I use LilyPond 2.19.65, and meant to imply that this 
is the default bundled version. It calls Ghostscript version 9.21, which 
is contained in the bundle.

Best, Simon