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Conference vaxuum::document_ft

Title:DOCUMENT T1.0
Notice:**New notesfile (DOCUMENT.NOTE) now available (see note 897)**
Moderator:CLOSET::ADLER
Created:Mon Feb 09 1987
Last Modified:Thu Oct 31 1991
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:897
Total number of notes:4397

436.0. "Memory Capacity and Printing Specified Pages" by PNEUMA::ILSLEY () Thu May 28 1987 15:33

Two problems -- memory capacity and printing individual pages.

1. Memory capacity
  
   I have a manual that is over 500 pages long. When I processed the 
   profile in BL07, I exceeded memory after 200+ pages. When I processed
   the profile in BL08, I exceeded memory after 302 pages. Here is the
   end of my log file

%TEX-E-NOROOM, Exceeded memory capacity:
-TEX-I-MAXHASH, Maximum number of entries in hash table is: 4250
%TEX-I-SHOWCONTEXT, '...annumeral \tempcs \endcsname '
%TEX-I-SHOWCONTEXT, '                                          {#2}\relax \origmark \expan...'
%TEX-I-SHOWCONTEXT, '...revskip \fi \MarkOutsidefig '
%TEX-I-SHOWCONTEXT, '                                          \ifdim \pagegoal <\maxdimen...'
%TEX-I-LINE, Error occurred on or around line number: 495
%TEX-I-SHOWCONTEXT, '\endfigure'
%TEX-I-SHOWCONTEXT, '          '
%TEX-I-FILENAME, '07_UVMG'
-TEX-I-ONPAGE, on page [7-16]

%TEX-I-PAGESOUT, 302 pages written.
-TEX-I-OUTFILENAME, 'user3:[ilsley.uvmg.new]UVMG_PRO.DVI_LN03'
%DOC-F-ERROR_FORMATTER, Errors found by the Text Formatter.
$ exit ($status + (0 * f$verify(verify_context))) ! SYS$SCRATCH:DOC$UVMG_PRO.TMP - End
  ILSLEY       job terminated at 28-MAY-1987 13:21:45.31

  Accounting information:
  Buffered I/O count:          726      Peak working set size:  3000
  Direct I/O count:           2298      Peak page file size:   10250
  Page faults:                6505      Mounted volumes:           0
  Charged CPU time:     0 01:17:25.40   Elapsed time:     0 01:31:28.43




2. Printing individual pages

   I've had different results printing individual pages from a .DVI_LN03 file
   in BL08. Sometimes I get 0 pages, although I know the specifed page numbers
   exist. Other times the specified pages print correctly, but the unspecified
   pages print as well -- as garbage. I'm using the following command format.

   DOCUMENT/NOTAG/NOTEXT file.dvi_ln03 doctype ln03 /device=(s:n,e:n)
T.RTitleUserPersonal
Name
DateLines
436.1Need to see the filesCLOSET::ANKLAMThu May 28 1987 17:319
    
    Looks like we're up to another limit. Would it be possible to copy
    all the files ? Since we've never seen a file that exceeds the hash
    table size, I'm not sure I understand what's causing it, to decide
    how to fix it. Also, Mark will be interested in the .DVI_LN03 file
    to look at what's going on the with page numbers.
    
    patti
    
436.2S:, E:, N: are not quite there yetVAXUUM::DEVRIESThose are features, not bugsFri May 29 1987 14:1212
    Re: problems with starting-page, ending-page, number-of-pages
    
    The condition of the support for these /DEVICE_CONVERTER keywords 
    currently differs from one destination to another (in BL08).  I
    am currently concentrating on these features, and will ensure that
    they are consistent and correct for V1.0.
    
    (In the meantime: if you use starting-page with the LN03 destination,
    you may well get *parts* of the pages which preceed your desired
    starting page, as referred to in the base note.)
    
    Mark
436.3166 <figure>sCLOSET::ANKLAMMon Jun 01 1987 17:574
    re: exceeding memory. we did hit another limit, and can up TeX a
    bit more...the file in question has 166 figures, so TeX ran out
    of room to store temporary strings to handle them. 
436.4it ran in bl6OILCAN::KEEFEWed Jun 03 1987 13:589
    We did run this manual successfully using bl 6, to get the table
    of contents and index. So it looked like the amount of memory available
    to TeX got reduced in the new version, not increased. It really
    was increased though (right?), so the failure to process this manual
    in bl8 seems like a side effect caused by something else, in addition
    to the number of figures. ?
    
    -Neil
     
436.5different limitCLOSET::ANKLAMThu Jun 04 1987 14:2912
    
    TeX has a number of limits, one is memory for holding big chunks
    of pages while figuring out to page it, one is for holding the
    names of character string control sequences, and so on. We upped
    the main memory between bl6 and bl7, upped the poolsize between
    7 and 8, and just now ran into the string memory. It means that
    we were close to a limit in BL7, but didn't hit up against. Any
    control sequence names that get added (in internal macros) count,
    so even a small number of additional names may have run us up over
    the limit.