[tex-live] mem-error with pdftex and context

Sebastian Rahtz sebastian.rahtz at computing-services.oxford.ac.uk
Wed Apr 16 10:36:02 CEST 2003


On Wed, 2003-04-16 at 00:20, Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini wrote:

> This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.14159-1.00b-pretest-20020211-2.1 (Web2C 7.3.7x)
> fatal: memory exhausted (xmalloc of 60000008 bytes).
> 
>               run time : 1 seconds
> 
>         total run time : 4 seconds
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
> Why does pdfeTeX need so much memory?

we may have had an error in the texmf.cnf. look at the memory
lines in what you have next to context, and see if there is
an extra zero on the end of one of them

it seems fine in TeX Live 8

Sebastian



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