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fatal: memory exhausted (xmalloc of 60000008 bytes). --------------------------------------------------------------- Should I really increase memory to run an one-word job? There must be an other error.

this is an OS problem, if you run some old windows (95/98), make sure that there is enough non fragemented disk space left on your c drive (or the disk where the virtual mem file resides); it may help to increase your virtual mem; tex needs some 16-32 M per job (kind of fixed)

Hans

I run tetex on linux (debian). I have compared the memory settings in the context section of both TeX Live 6 and 7, they are identical. Do you have any ideas?

the message is not a tex one (say: too less font mem, or hash exceeded) but an operating system one; this may happen when you rmem settings in the texmf.cnf file don't match the values stored in the format file; did you

regenerate the format?

i also wonder where the 60 meg of mem request comes from

Hans

I made the following little experiments with 'simple.tex': ------------------simple.tex---------------- \starttext Test. \stoptext ------------------------------------------------- I hope, that the following command ist �quivalent to 'texexec simple'

pdfetex --efmt cont-en simple

This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.14159-1.00b-pretest-20020211-2.1 (Web2C 7.3.7x) entering extended mode (./simple.tex Error: pdfetex (file pdftex.cfg): cannot open config file (The former xmalloc-error is not reported, but 'pdftex.cfg' could not opened!?)

pdfetex

This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.14159-1.00b-pretest-20020211-2.1 (Web2C 7.3.7x) **\relax entering extended mode {/usr/TeX/texmf-var/pdftex/config/pdftex.cfg} *\end No pages of output. Transcript written on texput.log. (Here, 'pdftex.cfg' is found and opened!! ) I created an further pdftedx.cfg in my user-tree and I get:

pdfetex --efmt cont-en simple

This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.14159-1.00b-pretest-20020211-2.1 (Web2C 7.3.7x) entering extended mode (./simple.tex Error: pdfetex (file pdftex.cfg): cannot open config file

pdfetex

This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.14159-1.00b-pretest-20020211-2.1 (Web2C 7.3.7x) **\relax entering extended mode {/home/wwl/texmf/pdftex/config/pdftex.cfg} *\end No pages of output. Transcript written on texput.log. Is this ok or wrong? Is this the same error as bevor or a second error? Obviously this is format dependend. The format is newly made with: texexec --make en The new format is written to /usr/TeX/texmf-var/web2c/cont-en.efmt Timestamp looks ok! Wolfgang