Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد wrote:

Hi Hans,

On Tue, 09 Sep 2008 10:38:12 -0600, Hans Hagen wrote:

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you can increase the hash in texmf.cnf

Are there plans to get rid of texmf.cnf for mkiv and do this sort of scaling, say, dynamically?

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... 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 Am 10.09.2008 um 18:46 schrieb Steffen Wolfrum:

Am 09.09.2008 um 18:38 schrieb Hans Hagen:

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Steffen Wolfrum wrote:

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Hi,

I have a quite large project: over 700 pages, 2500 footnotes, some tables, figures etc. Everything works well when typeset in two parts.

But when I typeset the entire project as one, I get this error:

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EbeneSechs : C.III.7.b Wirksamkeit trotz mündlicher und konkludenter Abtr etungsverbote ! TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [hash size=60000].

you can increase the hash in texmf.cnf

that worked ... but after some more working on my project I get another error (see below):

which one I can increase now ?

pool_free.context = 47500 pool_size.context = 2000000 pool_size = 1250000 pool_free = 47500

Thanks, Steffen

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! TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [pool size=529543]. \defconvertedargument ...\edef #1{\detokenize {#2} } \dodododoconstructhead ...ko #1\c!expansion }}{#4} \gdef \currentheadtext {#4... l.3933 ...\kern-0.05em}, \hbox{ZfgKW} 2005, 981.]}

If you really absolutely need more capacity, you can ask a wizard to enlarge me.

Here is how much of TeX's memory you used: 33083 strings out of 457141 529543 string characters out of 529543 5331289 words of memory out of 7759285 61694 multiletter control sequences out of 10000+500000 1283787 words of font info for 969 fonts, out of 3000000 for 5000 543 hyphenation exceptions out of 8191 72i,21n,94p,4610b,14879s stack positions out of 5000i,500n,10000p, 200000b,50000s ! ==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced!

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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