On Tue, 2012-03-20 at 21:44 +0100, Hans Hagen wrote:
sure, but mu experience is that browsers of email clients are way more demanding than tex when it comes to memory usage
I've never had either take down the entire operating system. There is a different from intended memory usage and unintended anyways. In this case, we are talking about the latter.
for tex it depends how much memory is permitted (there are some maxima that can be set in configuration files) ... i must say that I never run out of memory, although with doing extreme torture tests with many fonts one can come pretty close
Well, you saw what happened with my sample minimal. Anyways, if this is normal behaviour, that's fine, I just wanted to bring it to the list's attention. That's all. -- Kip Warner -- Software Engineer OpenPGP encrypted/signed mail preferred http://www.thevertigo.com