Hi,

I'm on a Mac Sierra 10.12.5, Lilypond 2.19.36
It has 8GB of RAM but when engraving my score Lilypond is using almost 3GB.
When it gets close to the 3GB point is when it crashes and I get the malloc
error. Could it be simply that I don't have enough RAM?

Craig

On Thu, 22 Jun 2017 at 7:14 pm, Andrew Bernard <andrew.bern...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi Craig,
>
> Version number and platform?
>
> I have very large, very complex scores of similar length (100 pages +)
> that compile with no problem (but keyboard music so perhaps considerably
> fewer staves).
>
> Andrew
>
>
> On 22 June 2017 at 14:27, Maxime's Music <craig.dabelst...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Lilyponders,
>>
>> I've been working on a very big score, adding staves one at a time.
>> There are 34 staves, and the PDF is 107 pages long. When I add in either
>> of the final two staves I get this error message:
>>
>>
>> lilypond(43147,0xa70c91c0) malloc: *** mach_vm_map(size=1048576) failed
>> (error code=3)
>>
>> *** error: can't allocate region
>>
>> *** set a breakpoint in malloc_error_break to debug
>>
>>
>> Can anyone point me in the right direction to start working out what is
>> wrong?
>>
>>
>> All the best,
>>
>>
>> Craig
>>
>>
>>
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