TeX capcity excedeed with metafun

TeX capcity excedeed with metafun

[andrea valle]

Hi to all,

I'm plotting 10,000 little squares thus exceeding TeX capacity. I was 
going to modify context.cnf (everything works with 5,000 squares).


In particular, I'm  on macosx 10.3 with Gerben's distro. I am editing 
this file:
  /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/web2c/context.cnf

1. is it correct?
2. Above all, I'am obtaining:
! TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [main memory size=8000000].

Here's the log:

If you really absolutely need more capacity,
you can ask a wizard to enlarge me.


Here is how much of TeX's memory you used:
  1108 strings out of 60272
  18484 string characters out of 602115
  8000001 words of memory out of 8000000
  38234 multiletter control sequences out of 10000+50000
  75018 words of font info for 37 fonts, out of 2000000 for 2000
  192 hyphenation exceptions out of 5000
  36i,2n,31p,223b,477s stack positions out of 
5000i,500n,6000p,200000b,40000s
PDF statistics:
  0 PDF objects out of 300000
  0 named destinations out of 131072
  1 words of extra memory for PDF output out of 10000
No pages of output.



But in context.cnf I have:
main_memory.context      = 2000000
main_memory.mpost        = 3000000
main_memory.metafun      = 3000000

Now, I added one 0 to all these params, thus decuplicating the values, 
but nothing changes.

?

Many thanks as usual for any hints

Best

-a-

Andrea Valle
DAMS - Facoltà di Scienze della Formazione
Università degli Studi di Torino
http://www.semiotiche.it/andrea
andrea.valle@unito.it

Re: TeX capacity exceeded with metafun

[andrea valle]

Now, as far as I understand it seems that I have to edit texmf.cnf.

In any case, I do not know in which way...


Thanks!

-a-






On 12 Mar 2006, at 11:19, andrea valle wrote:

> Hi to all,
>
> I'm plotting 10,000 little squares thus exceeding TeX capacity. I was
> going to modify context.cnf (everything works with 5,000 squares).
>
>
> In particular, I'm  on macosx 10.3 with Gerben's distro. I am editing
> this file:
>   /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/web2c/context.cnf
>
> 1. is it correct?
> 2. Above all, I'am obtaining:
> ! TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [main memory size=8000000].
>
> Here's the log:
>
> If you really absolutely need more capacity,
> you can ask a wizard to enlarge me.
>
>
> Here is how much of TeX's memory you used:
>   1108 strings out of 60272
>   18484 string characters out of 602115
>   8000001 words of memory out of 8000000
>   38234 multiletter control sequences out of 10000+50000
>   75018 words of font info for 37 fonts, out of 2000000 for 2000
>   192 hyphenation exceptions out of 5000
>   36i,2n,31p,223b,477s stack positions out of
> 5000i,500n,6000p,200000b,40000s
> PDF statistics:
>   0 PDF objects out of 300000
>   0 named destinations out of 131072
>   1 words of extra memory for PDF output out of 10000
> No pages of output.
>
>
>
> But in context.cnf I have:
> main_memory.context      = 2000000
> main_memory.mpost        = 3000000
> main_memory.metafun      = 3000000
>
> Now, I added one 0 to all these params, thus decuplicating the values,
> but nothing changes.
>
> ?
>
> Many thanks as usual for any hints
>
> Best
>
> -a-
>
> Andrea Valle
> DAMS - Facoltà di Scienze della Formazione
> Università degli Studi di Torino
> http://www.semiotiche.it/andrea
> andrea.valle@unito.it
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>
Andrea Valle
DAMS - Facoltà di Scienze della Formazione
Università degli Studi di Torino
http://www.semiotiche.it/andrea
andrea.valle@unito.it

Re: TeX capacity exceeded with metafun

[Hans Hagen]

andrea valle wrote:
> Now, as far as I understand it seems that I have to edit texmf.cnf.
>
> In any case, I do not know in which way...
>
>
> Thanks!
>
> -a-
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On 12 Mar 2006, at 11:19, andrea valle wrote:
>
>   
>> Hi to all,
>>
>> I'm plotting 10,000 little squares thus exceeding TeX capacity. I was
>> going to modify context.cnf (everything works with 5,000 squares).
>>
>>
>> In particular, I'm  on macosx 10.3 with Gerben's distro. I am editing
>> this file:
>>   /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/web2c/context.cnf
>>
>> 1. is it correct?
>> 2. Above all, I'am obtaining:
>> ! TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [main memory size=8000000].
>>
>> Here's the log:
>>
>> If you really absolutely need more capacity,
>> you can ask a wizard to enlarge me.
>>
>>
>> Here is how much of TeX's memory you used:
>>   1108 strings out of 60272
>>   18484 string characters out of 602115
>>   8000001 words of memory out of 8000000
>>   38234 multiletter control sequences out of 10000+50000
>>   75018 words of font info for 37 fonts, out of 2000000 for 2000
>>   192 hyphenation exceptions out of 5000
>>   36i,2n,31p,223b,477s stack positions out of
>> 5000i,500n,6000p,200000b,40000s
>> PDF statistics:
>>   0 PDF objects out of 300000
>>   0 named destinations out of 131072
>>   1 words of extra memory for PDF output out of 10000
>> No pages of output.
>>
>>
>>
>> But in context.cnf I have:
>> main_memory.context      = 2000000
>> main_memory.mpost        = 3000000
>> main_memory.metafun      = 3000000
>>
>> Now, I added one 0 to all these params, thus decuplicating the values,
>> but nothing changes.
>>     
did you regenerate the formats? 

(btw adding a 0 will not work, duplicating may) 

Hans 

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Re: TeX capacity exceeded with metafun

[andrea valle]

Thanks Hans

So:
1. If I understand, I have to edit context.cnf, right?
2. It may work, but non necessarily. It is thus possible that I cannot 
solve definitively the problem. How do I choose a clever number to set?
3. Ehm... No, I haven't regenerated the format. How can I do it?

Thanks

Best
-a-


>>> But in context.cnf I have:
>>> main_memory.context      = 2000000
>>> main_memory.mpost        = 3000000
>>> main_memory.metafun      = 3000000
>>>
>>> Now, I added one 0 to all these params, thus decuplicating the 
>>> values,
>>> but nothing changes.
>>>
> did you regenerate the formats?
>
> (btw adding a 0 will not work, duplicating may)
>
> Hans
>
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DAMS - Facoltà di Scienze della Formazione
Università degli Studi di Torino
http://www.semiotiche.it/andrea
andrea.valle@unito.it

Re: TeX capacity exceeded with metafun

[andrea valle]

I edited the file doubling the 3 values


>>>> But in context.cnf I have:
>>>> main_memory.context      = 2000000
>>>> main_memory.mpost        = 3000000
>>>> main_memory.metafun      = 3000000


>> did you regenerate the formats?
>>
>>


Then I ran:

texexec --make

(right?)

But nothing changed

Best

-a-

Re: TeX capacity exceeded with metafun

[Hans Hagen]

andrea valle wrote:
> Thanks Hans
>
> So:
> 1. If I understand, I have to edit context.cnf, right?
>   
no, texmf.cnf ; context.tmf is an example of what i use here; (you can 
try copying context.fmf to you texmf-local/web2c path)
 
> 2. It may work, but non necessarily. It is thus possible that I cannot 
> solve definitively the problem. How do I choose a clever number to set?
>   
locate the texmf,cnf files used and just change the numbers; going from 
2 meg to 4 meg is no problem, but in your case of adding a zero, going 
to 20 meg is more that tex can offer
> 3. Ehm... No, I haven't regenerated the format. How can I do it?
>   
texexec --make --all 

Hans 


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Re: TeX capacity exceeded with metafun

[andrea valle]

Thanks Hans,
I made some tweaking with values (quasi-randomly...).
Console is extremely slow in processing the file including the  
MPGraphic (I thought many times it hanged, then letting it run without  
looking I discovered some minutes after that it was still working).
Looking at the the terminal (from TeXShop), it seemed that the process  
was not finished, so I killed it, but the pdf is complete.
In any case now I have my drawing of 10,000 squares.

Best and thanks a lot

-a-

PS:
Here you have my algorithmic hommage à Boetti  
(http://www.artfacts.net/index.php/pageType/exhibitionInfo/exhibition/ 
5797/lang/3):
http://www.semiotiche.it/andrea/membrana/alternando.pdf



On 13 Mar 2006, at 09:24, Hans Hagen wrote:

> andrea valle wrote:
>> Thanks Hans
>>
>> So:
>> 1. If I understand, I have to edit context.cnf, right?
>>
> no, texmf.cnf ; context.tmf is an example of what i use here; (you can
> try copying context.fmf to you texmf-local/web2c path)
>
>> 2. It may work, but non necessarily. It is thus possible that I cannot
>> solve definitively the problem. How do I choose a clever number to  
>> set?
>>
> locate the texmf,cnf files used and just change the numbers; going from
> 2 meg to 4 meg is no problem, but in your case of adding a zero, going
> to 20 meg is more that tex can offer
>> 3. Ehm... No, I haven't regenerated the format. How can I do it?
>>
> texexec --make --all
>
> Hans
>
>
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Università degli Studi di Torino
http://www.semiotiche.it/andrea
andrea.valle@unito.it

Re: TeX capacity exceeded with metafun

[Hans Hagen]

andrea valle wrote:
> Console is extremely slow in processing the file including the  
>   
that is an os issue (maybe choose another font for your console)

i have no speed problems on the windows and linux boxes 

Hans  


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