Please keep the discussion on the list using "Reply All" to let others
fix my wrong thoughts. :-)
It has nothing to do with the CPU. I suppose you have a dual core or
hyperthreading processor.
Look for the memory consumption of lilypond.exe in task manager.
Use a value like 60.
It also may happen you not correctly set the environment variable.
joel mellin wrote:
Hi Bert,
Thanks for the info. I guess this leads me to - what if it does
appear to be ignored? I've set that environment variable, rebooted a
number of times since, and whever I create the PDF and watch the task
manager, CPU sticks at 50. I only set it to 90 just to see if it
would actually go up to 90. I'm using the context menu - right click
- generate score. This appears (as judged by the registry) to run
lilypond-windows with the -dgui. Perhaps the Task Manager is not the
best way to judge whether or not lilypond is using more CPU / Memory?
Either way, I still receive a memory allocation error.
Is there a better place to put the 'export
LILYPOND_GC_YIELD=VAL' instead of an environment variable?
Thanks - I appreciate the help!
Best,
Joel
On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 10:27 AM, Bertalan Fodor (LilyPondTool)
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
I'm sure that LILYPOND_GC_YIELD is not ignored, I tried it. See
http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg38982.html
However, I don't know if 90 is really high or not.
I used to recommend a number below 70.
Bert
joel mellin wrote:
Hi Lilyponders.
newbie question - I'm entering the world of lilypond via JMSL
(www.algomusic.com <http://www.algomusic.com/>) and glad to be here.
I've got a rather lengthy score of ~2400 measures with many, many
notes. When I attempt to create the PDF file, I get as far as
the preprocessing of graphical objects, and then I receiving a
memory allocation error. I've scoured the web / lilypond.org
<http://lilypond.org/> site / etc. for information regarding
memory allocation and am a bit stumped.
I'm on a windows machine, and the CPU holds at 50% usage, and
memory never goes above the ~1.75 GB mark. I've tried adding the
LILYPOND_GC_YIELD environment variable and setting it high (90),
but it appears that this is ignored. Is this true on windows
machines? I've looked for ways to set this from the command line
arguments [lilypond-windows.exe - ??] but it doesn't appear that
this is the way to do this either. Smaller runs of the same
process that generates the longer score seem to work alright. I
get the impression it's not a syntax issue as much as it is a
memory allocation issue, and there's more CPU and memory to be
used, for sure.
Ideas? Has anyone dealt with long compilation times / high
memory usage / memory errors on windows machines?
Thank you kindly,
Joel
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