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| kens | chrisl ping | 13:06.42 |
| chrisl | kens: pong | 13:13.09 |
| kens | Just about to close bug #699246 (again) | 13:13.24 |
| | Just wondering if you had any idea about memory limits in GS | 13:13.35 |
| | particularly garbage collected memory, since pdfwrite is prone to using that | 13:13.49 |
| | If you can think of anything it mihgt be then I'll throw him a bone, but don't go actually looking for anything | 13:14.35 |
| chrisl | I'm not sure, I'll have to look at the code | 13:14.38 |
| kens | Oh don't go that far | 13:14.50 |
| | I'll just close it and remind him he doesn't get support as a free user | 13:15.03 |
| chrisl | It's possible that using "-c XXXXXXXXXX setvmthreshold -f...." might work to set the limit higher | 13:15.41 |
| kens | Hmm maybe I guess. I'll offer him that as a possibility. | 13:15.57 |
| chrisl | Hmm, max_vm is only a long...... | 13:18.11 |
| kens | But that's 64 bits, right ? | 13:18.33 |
| | Oh actually on WIndows it probably isn't | 13:18.41 |
| chrisl | Depends on the platform | 13:18.46 |
| kens | unsigned long or just long ? | 13:19.43 |
| chrisl | Just a long | 13:20.06 |
| kens | So 2Gb then | 13:20.14 |
| | And he has (approximately) 1.2 Gb of input files (PDF files so compressed) | 13:20.40 |
| chrisl | I seem to remember looking at changing various memory manager parameters to int64_t - but I think it rather spiralled beyond a "quick fix" | 13:22.10 |
| kens | Not a problem | 13:22.38 |
| | I'm just writing a reply on the lines of 'here's a clue, now go away' | 13:22.54 |
| chrisl | We should probably schedule that as something to do - people will expect to be able to use large memory footprints these days | 13:23.48 |
| kens | Well this guy clearly does. | 13:24.00 |
| | Of course, trying to run > 6,000 PDF files as input strikes me as insane, but there you go | 13:24.23 |
| chrisl | Well, 64 bit OSes, and cheap DRAM, it's not unreasonable to expect to be able use it - not saying this guy's use in sensible, but in general | 13:25.24 |
| kens | Just checked, long is 4 bytes in Visual Studio | 13:25.28 |
| chrisl | Yes, but 8 bytes in linux x64 | 13:26.13 |
| kens | He's using Windows | 13:26.34 |
| | 64-bit but still Windows | 13:26.44 |
| | Right, reply sent, thanks chris | 13:29.08 |
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