On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 3:01 AM, Kip Warner <k...@thevertigo.com> wrote:
>What's probably happening is eventually the system runs out of memory, >the swap gets depleted as well, and as a last act of desperation, the >kernel finally denies an allocation request to luatex which is pretty >rare. The latter probably then dereferences the null pointer and then it >blows. Yes, can be, but LuaTex has it's memory manager that should manage this situation just to avoid segmentation faults. I will see if I'm able to setup a vm . > > I'm not sure if this is a concept inherited from TeX, but if it is, it's > probably not a good idea for the documentation and the user interface to > assume that ConTeXt users have a background with TeX or derived. Hm, ConTeXt is rooted in TeX and plain TeX. It helps a lot to know TeX (and eTeX and pdfTeX). -- luigi ___________________________________________________________________________________ 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________
