From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/75248 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context,gmane.comp.tex.luatex.user Subject: Re: [luatex] Itemize without page break Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2012 20:26:39 +0100 Message-ID: <4F68D9EF.30008@wxs.nl> References: <1332113133.3358.43.camel@kip-laptop> <1332113351.3358.44.camel@kip-laptop> <1332205456.3358.248.camel@kip-laptop> <7448136C-5F9E-44D5-8D5E-DF40EA6C3E57@googlemail.com> <1332221482.3358.310.camel@kip-laptop> <46285150-558A-4D3E-B052-12DFBF7E6F70@googlemail.com> <1332222588.3358.311.camel@kip-laptop> <20120320145751.GA19233@khaled-laptop> <1332269984.3358.318.camel@kip-laptop> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1332271657 4960 80.91.229.3 (20 Mar 2012 19:27:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2012 19:27:37 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Kip Warner , "General discussion of LuaTeX." To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Tue Mar 20 20:27:34 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([195.12.62.10]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SA4iE-00050d-B4 for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Tue, 20 Mar 2012 20:27:18 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id D21D61025D; Tue, 20 Mar 2012 20:27:17 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id lWSY1QRKoHUf; Tue, 20 Mar 2012 20:27:15 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from [127.0.0.1] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2049A101E3; Tue, 20 Mar 2012 20:27:15 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id B57F7101E3 for ; Tue, 20 Mar 2012 20:27:13 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id PljEwZhf0WJv for ; Tue, 20 Mar 2012 20:27:11 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from filter4-til.mf.surf.net (filter4-til.mf.surf.net [194.171.167.220]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4058C10194 for ; Tue, 20 Mar 2012 20:27:11 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from smtp.ziggozakelijk.nl (D57D1DA2.static.ziggozakelijk.nl [213.125.29.162]) by filter4-til.mf.surf.net (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-9.4) with ESMTP id q2KJRAbl014342 for ; Tue, 20 Mar 2012 20:27:10 +0100 X-Default-Received-SPF: pass (skip=loggedin (res=PASS)) x-ip-name=10.100.1.100; Original-Received: from [10.100.1.100] (unverified [10.100.1.100]) by pragma-net.nl (SurgeMail 5.3h2) with ESMTP (TLS) id 16-1713362 for multiple; Tue, 20 Mar 2012 20:27:03 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:10.0.2) Gecko/20120216 Thunderbird/10.0.2 In-Reply-To: <1332269984.3358.318.camel@kip-laptop> X-Authenticated-User: hagen@controller-9 X-Bayes-Prob: 0.0001 (Score 0, tokens from: @@RPTN) X-CanIt-Geo: ip=213.125.29.162; country=NL; region=03; city=Hattem; latitude=52.4667; longitude=6.0667; http://maps.google.com/maps?q=52.4667,6.0667&z=6 X-CanItPRO-Stream: uu:ntg-context@ntg.nl (inherits from uu:default, base:default) X-Canit-Stats-ID: 0VGLTrara - 7b2dc11dbad4 - 20120320 (trained as not-spam) X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . roaringpenguin . com) on 194.171.167.220 X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 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 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:75248 gmane.comp.tex.luatex.user:3490 Archived-At: On 20-3-2012 19:59, Kip Warner wrote: > On Tue, 2012-03-20 at 16:57 +0200, Khaled Hosny wrote: >> Older TeX engines had hard memory limit, so in case of such >> "syntactical" errors the engine would consume all its allocated memory >> and die (with a misleading error message), LuaTeX dynamically allocates >> memory (for good reasons) so it won't stop before consuming all your >> available memory, its the responsibility of an operating system to >> prevent such a faulty application from taking the whole system down. > > I'd be very interested in seeing the operating system memory manager's > algorithm that could do such a remarkable thing. well you can try what happens if you run stock lua: local t = { } while true do t[#t+1] = "just a bogus string: " .. (#t+1) end at some point your system will run out of (virtual) memory or lua will run out of whatever its limits are Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | voip: 087 875 68 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl ----------------------------------------------------------------- ___________________________________________________________________________________ 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 : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________