Not that this is very *helpful* but when I've had this situation, I process the first half of the score separate from the second half, adjusting page numbers if needed. I had to do this with my orchestra piece -- it ended up saving an hour of processing time!
On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 4:51 AM, Graham Percival <gra...@percival-music.ca> wrote: > There are some attempts to optimize the speed; one simple patch > reduces the time required by something like 40%. But you should > expect such problems from an unstable development version. > > Cheers, > - Graham > > On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 06:22:56PM +0800, 胡海鹏 - Hu Haipeng wrote: >> Hello, >> I finally finish my concert overture, which has just 250 measures, 34 >> pages. The compiling is a nightmare! When I used normal way, the computer >> turned into a circumstance like it was about to crash. Then I used Process >> Tamer, a small util program to reduce source wasting. At first, it's ok to >> do anything while compiling, but after 5 minutes, the computer again >> became very slow. Then I went away to listen to The Firebird. After its 45 >> minutes' music, Lilypond was still compiling. I checked the task manager, >> and found it first used around 120M of RAM, but then continuous ascend to >> over 520M, and then fall to 330M, and up to 472... After another about 50 >> minutes, The score was at last ready. The whole process took about 110 >> minutes!!! I'd like to know why Lilypond should use such a large memory, >> since cpu is not taken too much (but instead, "system idle process.exe" >> took very large percent (up to 94%) of cpu). I think I must buy a Win7 >> machine with 4 core cpu and 8gb RAM, otherwise I can't write a piece like >> The Firebird, which will burn my current machine into dust :-) >> Regards >> Haipeng >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> A:uIeOuOD--oIIo/O *Aa.NOEIa:O>>NuC,?'ouA:Ei 1/4thAd--L-? > >> _______________________________________________ >> lilypond-user mailing list >> lilypond-user@gnu.org >> http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user > > > _______________________________________________ > lilypond-user mailing list > lilypond-user@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user > -- Neil Thornock, D.M. The recent BYU Symphony Orchestra performance of Plutoids: http://neilthornock.net/mp3s/plutoids.mp3 Assistant Professor of Music Composition/Theory Brigham Young University _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
