What's probably happening is eventually the system runs out of memory, the swap gets depleted as well, and as a last act of desperation, the kernel finally denies an allocation request to luatex which is pretty rare. The latter probably then dereferences the null pointer and then it blows. Yes, can be, but LuaTex has it's memory manager that should manage
On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 3:01 AM, Kip Warner
I'm not sure if this is a concept inherited from TeX, but if it is, it's probably not a good idea for the documentation and the user interface to assume that ConTeXt users have a background with TeX or derived.
Hm, ConTeXt is rooted in TeX and plain TeX. It helps a lot to know TeX (and eTeX and pdfTeX). -- luigi