Re: Font memory issues ?

[David Wooten <dw@trichotomic.net>]

Thanks Thomas,

	I've still no luck, but I think things are quite a bit clearer now.  
I "stumbled" across an old fink installation, the existence of which  
hadn't crossed my mind for quite some time. That is now gone.
	I have also reinstalled my tex/context set-up via the i-Installer  
just to clear the air.

Here is what I currently see: there are 3 cnf files that may be  
involved:

	/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/web2c/context.cnf

Which declares:

	% This file is mostly the same as the one that ships with
	% texlive, but adapted for multiple trees as well as
	% development in a non tds tree (i.e. hh's machine). This
	% file is meant for context users.
	%
	% This file loads before texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf; beware :
	% the selfish auto parent can get in the way especially when
	% the binaries are located elsewhere. In case of multiple
	% trees, one can best set the following ones manually.

I believe that Hans said this was just an example file (?), but it  
has the memory.context settings including:

	font_max.context         =    2000
	font_mem_size.context    = 1000000
	main_memory.context      = 2000000

Second, there is:

	/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf

Which is referred to in the above context.cnf, and which declares:

	% original texmf.cnf -- runtime path configuration file for kpathsea.
	% (If you change or delete `original' on the previous line, the
	% distribution won't install its version over yours.)
	% Public domain.

	[Stuff skipped]	

	% Earlier entries (in the same or another file) override later ones,  
and
	% an environment variable foo overrides any texmf.cnf definition of  
foo.
	
This file also has memory settings, such as:

	% ConTeXt is a memory hog...
	main_memory.context = 2000000 % Keep total within 8000000 limit
	extra_mem_bot.context = 4000000
	% Words of font info for TeX (total size of all TFM files,  
approximately).
	font_mem_size = 2000000
	% Total number of fonts. Must be >= 50 and <= 2000 (without tex.ch  
changes).
	font_max = 2000

And finally,

	/usr/local/teTeX/texmf.cnf

Which is identified by
	
	kpsewhich texmf.cnf

and which has no memory settings.

I have tried changing the memory settings in each file (that means  
adding them to /usr/local/teTeX/texmf.cnf), raising the main_memory  
to 3000000 and the font_mem_size likewise to 3000000, and then  
running texexec --make --all. No change in the resulting readout:

	Here is how much of TeX's memory you used:
	4681 strings out of 60921
	74346 string characters out of 610603
	4609149 words of memory out of 7114466
	40727 multiletter control sequences out of 10000+50000
	1927616 words of font info for 332 fonts, out of 2000000 for 2000
	232 hyphenation exceptions out of 5000
	62i,21n,81p,1198b,1755s stack positions out of 5000i,500n,6000p, 
200000b,40000s
	PDF statistics:
	170 PDF objects out of 300000
	0 named destinations out of 131072
	109061 words of extra memory for PDF output out of 128383

At this point I would very much like to be embarrassed by a simple,  
too-obvious pointer ;)

Thanks very much,
David

On Jan 17, 2006, at 10:31 AM, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote:

> 1. Don't use texconfig for context, use texexec --make --all
>
> 2. If you use texonfig, the command is texconfig-sys, or you'll end  
> up having inconsistent files for different users.
>
> Best
>
> Thomas
>
> On Jan 17, 2006, at 6:35 PM, David Wooten wrote:
>
>> Hmm, interesting. I used "texconfig init". No, there seems to be  
>> no change if I rename it.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> David