On Sep 10, 2008, at 9:41 PM, Steffen Wolfrum wrote:
... ok fine again. I just increased the weak settings by ten:
hash_extra = 500000 % 50000 pool_size.context = 20000000 % 2000000
But I assume the fact that these variables have predefined values indicates that they shouldn't be fantastic high. Otherwise why would they have these precise values anyway?
So I am wondering: what is the right value, what is too high and what happens if the values are too high?
Steffen
Maybe of interest: here's what Taco wrote in December 2007:
Increase hash_extra, as Hans said. There is (virtuallly) no limit to that.
As to the question why the values are so low in texmf.cnf: keep in mind that TeX runs on some pretty old computers with maybe only 256 MB of RAM. When you prepare such a big system as TeXLive which has to run on all sorts of platforms and hardware, you prefer to err on the low side. Thomas