Yes, in texmf-local/web2c

Only mtxrun --generate

But even after now also running context --make,
when compiling the mwe, lmtx throws:
tex error       > tex error on line 540005 in file ./mwe.tex: TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [node memory size=50000000]

On Fri, Sep 10, 2021 at 8:49 AM Hans Hagen <j.hagen@xs4all.nl> wrote:
On 9/10/2021 1:45 PM, Marcus Vinicius Mesquita wrote:
> Hi,
>
> After perusing the texmfcnf.lua file, I created a file with the same name
> in my texmf-local folder, changing the settings for the node memory and
> step size, but it did not affect the compilation of the original MWE
> (without the enableexperiments switches), which still fails.  What am I
> missing?
>
> Below the contents of the file:
>
> return {
>     content = {
> directives = {
>         ["luametatex.nodesize"] = { size = 60000000, step =  600000 },
> }
>    }
> }
hm, in texmf-local/web2c ? did you run mtxrun --generate and context
--make ?

Hans

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