[tex-live] TL6 install report

Fabrice Popineau Fabrice.Popineau@supelec.fr
Tue, 04 Sep 2001 22:53:14 +0200


* Sebastian Rahtz <sebastian.rahtz@computing-services.oxford.ac.uk> writes:

> Fabrice Popineau writes:
>> * Petr Sojka <sojka@informatics.muni.cz> writes:
>> 
>> > fatal: memory exhausted (xmalloc of 64000008 bytes).
>> 
>> I'm afraid that this one will beat a few people. This is a straight
>> consequence of enlarging tex to handle all the languages available
>> on the texlive.

> I am puzzled by this. is it genuinely running out of memory?

I guess yes: 64Mb need to be allocated in  one block if I'm right. Can
we have the  details about main memory and  swap disk  space when this
problem occured ?

Fabrice