Re: GS error on somewhat large score

[Simon Albrecht]

On 16.10.2017 19:46, Knut Petersen wrote:
> The glib function g_spawn_sync() is called from  our general-scheme.cc 
> file in ly_run_command().
>
> It seems your system is low on memory. Did you set a limit on memory 
> usage?
>
> You might run lilypond under control of gdb, set a breakpoint at the 
> start of ly_run_command() and inspect memory usage when the breakpoint 
> is reached.
>
> Or temporarily replace "gs" with a script that ignores the arguments 
> and executes a tool that allows you  to inspect the amount of free 
> memory.
>
> Try to increase the amount of available memory by adding some more GB 
> of swap.

Thanks for the hints – in fact the lack of swap was the problem.

Best, Simon