In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Peter Schaffter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi!
>
>Sorry about the screamer in the subject line. I've been six
>days fighting with the same problem. :(
>
>First things first: I'm using Lilypond 1.2.17, downloaded from
>Debian. (Since no one bothered to answer my post asking why
>the midi output of 1.3.75 doesn't respect tied notes, I'm stuck
>with 1.2.17). I'm running a standalone Pentium 100 Linux box
>with 24 megs of memory and 64 megs of swap.
That's pretty tight.
[Four-part piano music, ly2dvi makes it up to `paper output...'.]
>At this point, my hard disk starts thrashing like crazy, but
>nothing happens. I wait five, ten, twenty-five, sixty minutes
>to see if ly2dvi will complete its work and exit, but so far,
>it never has.
Are you running X-Windows on that box? If so, switch it off
(that will save a few MB). If not, open another console and run
`top' there. If you run out of memory, that will show up.
(Keep an eye on the line that shows the swap file usage.)
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Johan Schoone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> \\|//
Assume nothing, expect anything.
