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Re: large source occupying on myfinal composition


From: Graham Percival
Subject: Re: large source occupying on myfinal composition
Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2010 11:51:31 +0100
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17)

There are some attempts to optimize the speed; one simple patch
reduces the time required by something like 40%.  But you should
expect such problems from an unstable development version.

Cheers,
- Graham

On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 06:22:56PM +0800, 胡海鹏 - Hu Haipeng wrote:
>    Hello,
>      I finally finish my concert overture, which has just 250 measures, 34
>    pages. The compiling is a nightmare! When I used normal way, the computer
>    turned into a circumstance like it was about to crash. Then I used Process
>    Tamer, a small util program to reduce source wasting. At first, it's ok to
>    do anything while compiling, but after 5 minutes, the computer again
>    became very slow. Then I went away to listen to The Firebird. After its 45
>    minutes' music, Lilypond was still compiling. I checked the task manager,
>    and found it first used around 120M of RAM, but then continuous ascend to
>    over 520M, and then fall to 330M, and up to 472... After another about 50
>    minutes, The score was at last ready. The whole process took about 110
>    minutes!!! I'd like to know why Lilypond should use such a large memory,
>    since cpu is not taken too much (but instead, "system idle process.exe"
>    took very large percent (up to 94%) of cpu). I think I must buy a Win7
>    machine with 4 core cpu and 8gb RAM, otherwise I can't write a piece like
>    The Firebird, which will burn my current machine into dust :-)
>    Regards
>    Haipeng
> 
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