Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!mit-eddie!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!mcsun!ukc!icdoc!sot-ecs!Sebastian
From: S.P.Q.Rahtz@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Sebastian Rahtz)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: mega TeX runs out?
Message-ID: <16213.9008221742@manutius.ecs.soton.ac.uk>
Date: 22 Aug 90 17:42:26 GMT
Sender: spqr@ecs.soton.ac.uk
Lines: 13

a LaTeXer here has produced a monstrous file for PiCTeX (by running
fig2tex on a monstrous Fig file). Our normal LaTeX (memory of 262141)
runs out of main memory. So I built a TeX with  1049560 words of
memory by changing the values of mem_top and max_halfword (this using
web2c, by the way) in the change file. This ran for 3 hours on an
unloaded HP 9000 Unix machine, then ran out of memory again. So

 - is it legitimate to build a gross TeX simply by changing those
   numbers? did I miss something else?
 - anyone got any debugging suggestions?
 - are there known limits in PiCTeX?

sebastian