Re: GS error on somewhat large score

[Simon Albrecht]

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

> However, now it seems still different – I invoked Lily 2.19.65 on the 
> same score with verbose output to find out which Ghostscript it uses 
> and got this at the tail of the log:
>
> Layout output to `/tmp/lilypond-n7JQbT'...
> Initializing embedded CFF font list.
> Embedding CFF font `Alegreya-Bold'.
> [/usr/share/fonts/opentype/alegreya/Alegreya-Bold.otf]
> Embedding CFF font `Alegreya-BoldItalic'.
> [/usr/share/fonts/opentype/alegreya/Alegreya-BoldItalic.otf]
> Embedding CFF font `Alegreya-Italic'.
> [/usr/share/fonts/opentype/alegreya/Alegreya-Italic.otf]
> Embedding CFF font `Alegreya-Regular'.
> [/usr/share/fonts/opentype/alegreya/Alegreya-Regular.otf]
> Embedding CFF font `Emmentaler-16'.
> [/home/simon/lilypond/2.19.65/lilypond/usr/share/lilypond/current/fonts/otf/emmentaler-16.otf] 
>
> [/home/simon/lilypond/2.19.65/lilypond/usr/share/lilypond/current/ps/music-drawing-routines.ps] 
>
> [/home/simon/lilypond/2.19.65/lilypond/usr/share/lilypond/current/ps/lilyponddefs.ps] 
>
> Killed
>
> I’m sure it got to the point of converting ps to pdf when I tried it 
> before the first e-mail…
>
> Best, Simon
>
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