Taco, Thanks for your reply!
You are correct, the issue appears to be memory. The system is hosted on a linode, the smallest of which is 512 MB RAM. I increased this to 1024 MB RAM and this appears to fix the problem. Very much appreciate your help. Ray. On Jul 5, 2011, at 2:15 AM, Taco Hoekwater wrote: > On 07/05/2011 08:11 AM, luigi scarso wrote: >> On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 4:23 AM, Raymond LeClair >> <raymond.lecl...@synterein.com> wrote: >>> Thanks for your reply! >>> >>> On Jul 4, 2011, at 5:35 PM, Taco Hoekwater wrote: >>> >>>> Quite possibly (but that is very hard to verify and would be even harder >>>> to debug). Best practise is to give each process its own temporary >>>> directory, just in case. >>> >>> This is, in fact, guaranteed by design: each file resides in a directly >>> which is named using a uuid. >>> >>> Is it possible that context or luatex are creating files in a common >>> directory, say the cache directory, and access by one process locks the >>> file for access by another? >> It's possible: say for example that each task rebuild the format at >> every run just to be sure. The format is shared by all instances for >> the same minimals or TeXLive, so conflicts may arise. >> The same for example for the font cache. > > Possible but, I think, quite unlikely. Another possibility is that you simply > run out of memory? > > Best wishes, > Taco > > > ___________________________________________________________________________________ > If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the > Wiki! > > maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context > webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net > archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ > wiki : http://contextgarden.net > ___________________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________
