Re: strange_exit

[Joe Neeman]

On Fri, 16 Nov 2007 18:18:50 David Bobroff wrote:
> I had a strange exit from a LilyPond run.  I've never seen this before.
>   I was running a collection of nearly 70 etudes.  It appeared to be
> running just fine.  I got lots of "Preprocessing..." and
> "Interpreting..." etc. and then when it got to "Fitting music on 86 or87
> pages..." it didn't progress any further for a long time.  I let it run
> overnight to see if Lily just needed more time to think about it.  When
> I got up in the morning I found this:

As Hans said, the error means that you ran out of memory. Does it help if you 
use the minimal page-breaking algorithm as described in section 11.4.5 of the 
manual?

Joe