Re: GS error on somewhat large score

[David Wright]

On Mon 16 Oct 2017 at 18:31:36 (+0200), Simon Albrecht wrote:
> On 16.10.2017 18:28, Simon Albrecht wrote:
> >On 16.10.2017 17:13, David Kastrup wrote:
> >>Simon Albrecht <address@hidden> writes:
> >>
> >>>Hello everybody,
> >>>
> >>>I’ve just noticed a problem when compiling a medium to large score (44
> >>>pages of output) with 2.19.65: everything is fine until GS fails with
> >>>the message
> >>>warning: g_spawn_sync failed (0): gs: Failed to fork (Cannot allocate
> >>>memory).
> >>>Compiling the 3–5 page bookparts individually is no problem.
> >>>
> >>>Does this ring a bell with anybody? or
> >>>How should I further investigate the problem? or
> >>>Would anybody be interested in getting the file privately to
> >>>investigate?
> >>It might be worth mentioning what kind of system and which Ghostscript
> >>you are seeing this problem with.
> >
> >Ubuntu 16.04.
> >I forgot earlier to mention in the e-mail that I tried with
> >$ lilypond -fps printAll.ly
> >$ ps2pdf printAll.ps
> >and it worked.
> 
> $ which gs
> /usr/bin/gs
> $ gs --version
> 9.18

Does that mean anything at the command line? I get the impression
that LP juggles with LD_LIBRARY_PATH etc (unless your distribution
has actually set up 2.19.65 as the system version).

Cheers,
David.