RE: pdf creation and memory management.

2011-01-06 Thread James Lowe
: Re: pdf creation and memory management. On Fri, Jan 07, 2011 at 07:44:16AM +1100, Nick Payne wrote: > Given how cheap RAM is these days (around $10/Gb), it sounds as though > it would be worth your while doubling or quadrupling the RAM to > eliminate the swapping to disk. `RAM/Disk is chea

Re: pdf creation and memory management.

2011-01-06 Thread Matthias Kilian
On Fri, Jan 07, 2011 at 07:44:16AM +1100, Nick Payne wrote: > Given how cheap RAM is these days (around $10/Gb), it sounds as though > it would be worth your while doubling or quadrupling the RAM to > eliminate the swapping to disk. `RAM/Disk is cheap' is the favorite excuse of lame developers.

Re: pdf creation and memory management.

2011-01-06 Thread Shane Brandes
Yes seems good advice. I had not really thought much about what is in the actual machine for a long time. Nor was I aware RAM had dropped in price so considerably. Shane On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 3:44 PM, Nick Payne wrote: > On 07/01/11 05:03, Shane Brandes wrote: >> >> Greetings all, >> >>    This

Re: pdf creation and memory management.

2011-01-06 Thread Nick Payne
On 07/01/11 05:03, Shane Brandes wrote: Greetings all, This is a question regarding the unseen forces of actually creating a PDF. Yesterday. I ran a pdf generation that included 3 files each file on its own takes approximately 3-4.5 minutes to generate a PDF image, but together they took 7.5

Re: pdf creation and memory management.

2011-01-06 Thread Phil Holmes
- Original Message - From: "Shane Brandes" To: "LilyPond User Group" Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2011 6:03 PM Subject: pdf creation and memory management. Greetings all, This is a question regarding the unseen forces of actually creating a PDF. Yesterday. I

pdf creation and memory management.

2011-01-06 Thread Shane Brandes
Greetings all, This is a question regarding the unseen forces of actually creating a PDF. Yesterday. I ran a pdf generation that included 3 files each file on its own takes approximately 3-4.5 minutes to generate a PDF image, but together they took 7.5 hours and 2 seconds. The resulting documen