Re: GS error on somewhat large score

[David Kastrup]

Simon Albrecht <address@hidden> writes:

> On 16.10.2017 18:50, David Kastrup wrote:
>> Simon Albrecht <address@hidden> writes:
>>> 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.
>> This is great.  Now we only need to know your system architecture
>> (64bit? 32bit? arm? x86?), whether you installed the system version of
>> LilyPond or a predistributed binary or compiled something yourself, your
>> Ghostscript version.
>
> $ uname -m
> x86_64
>
> I already said that I use LilyPond 2.19.65, and meant to imply that
> this is the default bundled version. It calls Ghostscript version
> 9.21, which is contained in the bundle.

So how much memory do you have and how much swap space?

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David Kastrup