From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/43865 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Thomas A. Schmitz" Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: project too large?? Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2008 22:34:03 +0200 Message-ID: <1535C796-5384-4FE9-BCE0-4EEA428615D8@uni-bonn.de> References: <78792728-BF02-49CA-B0AD-D934012EEFB7@st.estfiles.de> <48C6A674.9030306@wxs.nl> <6715D0FD-2BDC-40F8-9CEE-2AF17764456B@st.estfiles.de> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v926) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1221078950 19652 80.91.229.12 (10 Sep 2008 20:35:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2008 20:35:50 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Wed Sep 10 22:36:46 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KdWQa-0002om-QR for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Wed, 10 Sep 2008 22:36:40 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 48F441FE84; Wed, 10 Sep 2008 22:35:38 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 18141-04; Wed, 10 Sep 2008 22:34:46 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id B76C61FE88; Wed, 10 Sep 2008 22:34:46 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 288FB1FE88 for ; Wed, 10 Sep 2008 22:34:45 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 17829-02 for ; Wed, 10 Sep 2008 22:34:09 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mailout10.t-online.de (mailout10.t-online.de [194.25.134.21]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id F3D5D1FE64 for ; Wed, 10 Sep 2008 22:34:08 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from fwd02.aul.t-online.de by mailout10.sul.t-online.de with smtp id 1KdWO8-0005Hh-04; Wed, 10 Sep 2008 22:34:08 +0200 Original-Received: from [192.168.0.2] (EkIUpmZAgh30XV8pMdBcrH2ISxz+vzU2JvhaDfBzn76eWG50C1E3aVWTGu1UGc2Q9L@[87.178.78.1]) by fwd02.aul.t-online.de with esmtp id 1KdWO3-29XzeK0; Wed, 10 Sep 2008 22:34:03 +0200 In-Reply-To: <6715D0FD-2BDC-40F8-9CEE-2AF17764456B@st.estfiles.de> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.926) X-ID: EkIUpmZAgh30XV8pMdBcrH2ISxz+vzU2JvhaDfBzn76eWG50C1E3aVWTGu1UGc2Q9L@t-dialin.net X-TOI-MSGID: db741d12-c80e-422b-9c0b-1e5da19e1c77 X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:43865 Archived-At: 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________