Thanks so much for the confirmation. A couple questions: 1) Is there a technical obstacle or other reason preventing a Windows 64-bit build? 2) Is it possible to run Lilypond under WSL from Frescobaldi?
On Tue, Dec 18, 2018 at 8:36 PM Aaron Hill <lilyp...@hillvisions.com> wrote: > On 2018-12-18 7:24 pm, Saul Tobin wrote: > > It looks like the Fatal realloc error happens after the score finishes > > compiling while it's being written to a temporary file. At that point, > > the > > Lilypond process is using ~1.8 G of RAM. Is it possible I'm running > > into a > > 32 bit size limitation in Guile or something like that? > > Very likely. There have been a number of issues reported before > regarding memory pressure. The Windows build of LilyPond is 32-bit > only. Also, I do not believe it is "large-address aware" either, so > that means the address space is strictly 2GiB. When you factor in DLLs > and other resources, 1.8GiB is probably a reasonable upper bound for the > working set. > > Due to a number of factors (bit-ness being one of them), I switched to > using the 64-bit Linux build of LilyPond, running it under the Windows > Subsystem for Linux (WSL). This strategy, however, is not for the faint > of heart. You can search the mailing list for some posts I made on the > subject; but if you are not already using WSL, it may not make sense to > set it up just for LilyPond. > > To work within the limits of the existing Windows build, you will > ultimately have to simplify the score in some way. Manually segmenting > it could allow you to compile each section without running out of > memory, leaving you with the (hopefully) trivial task of stitching > together the individual outputs into a single result. > > > -- Aaron Hill > > _______________________________________________ > lilypond-user mailing list > lilypond-user@gnu.org > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user >
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