Re: project too large??

["Thomas A. Schmitz" <thomas.schmitz@uni-bonn.de>]

On Sep 10, 2008, at 9:41 PM, Steffen Wolfrum wrote:

> ... ok fine again. I just increased the weak settings by ten:
>
> hash_extra = 500000 % 50000
> pool_size.context        = 20000000 % 2000000
>
> But I assume the fact that these variables have predefined values
> indicates that they shouldn't be fantastic high. Otherwise why would
> they have these precise values anyway?
>
> So I am wondering: what is the right value, what is too high and what
> happens if the values are too high?
>
> Steffen
>
Maybe of interest: here's what Taco wrote in December 2007:

> Increase hash_extra, as Hans said. There is (virtuallly) no limit
> to that.

As to the question why the values are so low in texmf.cnf: keep in  
mind that TeX runs on some pretty old computers with maybe only 256 MB  
of RAM. When you prepare such a big system as TeXLive which has to run  
on all sorts of platforms and hardware, you prefer to err on the low  
side.

Thomas
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