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From: Raymond LeClair <raymond.leclair@synterein.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Would Multiple Processes Cause: luatex: execution interrupted
Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2011 11:15:24 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <C52472CD-100B-46F8-B927-2EDA2CE2E8D3@synterein.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E12ABF1.20700@elvenkind.com>

Taco,

Thanks for your reply!

You are correct, the issue appears to be memory. The system is hosted on a linode, the smallest of which is 512 MB RAM. I increased this to 1024 MB RAM and this appears to fix the problem.

Very much appreciate your help.

Ray.

On Jul 5, 2011, at 2:15 AM, Taco Hoekwater wrote:

> On 07/05/2011 08:11 AM, luigi scarso wrote:
>> On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 4:23 AM, Raymond LeClair
>> <raymond.leclair@synterein.com>  wrote:
>>> Thanks for your reply!
>>> 
>>> On Jul 4, 2011, at 5:35 PM, Taco Hoekwater wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Quite possibly  (but that is very hard to verify and would be even harder to debug). Best practise is to give each process its own temporary directory, just in case.
>>> 
>>> This is, in fact, guaranteed by design: each file resides in a directly which is named using a uuid.
>>> 
>>> Is it possible that context or luatex are creating files in a common directory, say the cache directory, and access by one process locks the file for access by another?
>> It's possible: say for example that each task rebuild the format at
>> every run just to be sure. The format  is shared by all instances for
>> the same minimals or TeXLive, so conflicts may arise.
>> The same for example for the font cache.
> 
> Possible but, I think, quite unlikely. Another possibility is that you simply run out of memory?
> 
> Best wishes,
> Taco
> 
> 
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      reply	other threads:[~2011-07-05 15:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-07-04 21:24 Raymond LeClair
2011-07-04 21:35 ` Taco Hoekwater
2011-07-05  2:23   ` Raymond LeClair
2011-07-05  6:11     ` luigi scarso
2011-07-05  6:15       ` Taco Hoekwater
2011-07-05 15:15         ` Raymond LeClair [this message]

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