Questions tagged [memory]
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Lualatex — Memory exhausted (xmalloc)
I am putting together a collection of songs from around the world. I am using fontspec in lualatex with Tex Live on Windows 11 with 16GB of RAM. I am compiling the document variously by using a latex-...
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Problem rerunning large tex with changebars
My document mainly consists in a large amount of tables and it is a 40.000 lines document. When I run de pdflatex command for the first time, it works, but to see the change bar, it must be run again ...
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Latex debugger? [duplicate]
Are there any debugging capabilities in latex or any gui editors? That is, is there a way I can view the value of variables, commands, memory etc during compiling and at the exact moment compilation ...
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Adjust memory size not success for LaTeX by TexLive in Windows 11
I make a LaTeX file with a long table with tabularray.sty and xelatex and Texworks show me that memory size not enough. My computer has 16GB memory and I allocated 50GB virtual memory for my computer.
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Pdflatex exceeding memory using tikz when externalizing the HUGE figures
This issue has bothered me for long time and I couldn't solve it:
I have a .tex file with 12 figures and 8 of them are extremely large (containing lots of data points), and that's why I am using \...
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TOC disappears when loading both 'tikz' and certain glossary commands. Memory issue?
I am having an issue with a quite big project. The table of contents is empty and the error messages No room for a new \write. and Bad number (16). are thrown.
Note: I have included the code at the ...
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Avoiding words of node memory still in use
I am using lualatex on a file wasp.ltx and getting
427 words of node memory still in use:
4 hlist, 1 vlist, 1 rule, 4 glue, 3 kern, 1 glyph, 7 attribute, 46 glue_spec
, 5 attribute_list, 1 write ...
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xdvipdfmx shows out of memory problem
I am running a file contain 800+ pages nearly 300 Images, when compile the file in TeXlive/xelatex, it shows the error "xdvipdfmx:fatal: Out of memory - asked for 21624001 bytes"
same file ...
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Automatically register arguments a command is used with
I am wondering whether it is possible to create some sort of set to keep track of elements in latex.
One intended usage would be to automatically generate a list of arguments that have been passed to ...
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Display bytewise memory layout
I want to graphically represent the memory layout of an eeprom.
I'd like to have a similar graphic like this one:
I especially need to write on top of an underlying table structure with differnt ...
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Why doesn't Kile use my build arguments?
Currently, I am working on a .tex file on Windows using Kile editor. If I use the following command to compile the file via terminal, everything works fine:
pdflatex --enable-write18 --extra-mem-bot=...
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What is a reasonable setting for longtable's LTchunksize in modern LaTeX?
The longtable manual says:
By
default longtable uses 20 rows per chunk, but this can be set by the user, with e.g.,
\setcounter{LTchunksize}{10}. These chunks do not affect page breaking,
thus if you ...
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TeXstudio doesn't accept memory changes
I have rather big pgfplots in my TeX file. I'm using TeXstudio and PdfLaTeX. My PdfLaTeX command looks like follows
pdflatex.exe -synctex=1 -src-specials -interaction=nonstopmode -enable-write18 -main-...
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LuaLaTeX: How to reduce the file size of the generated PDF on the fly?
I'm using LaTeX to generate a PDF that will have around 1500 - 2000 pages. The PDF includes a lot of pictures. Approximately 5000 photographs (JPG) that are each 2MB and a couple of hundred smaller ...
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Bib file seems to be too large for TexPad "pool size exceeded"
I'm using Texpad to write a book chapter. This is a review so the bibliography is very large. I'm using BiBDesk to generate my bib file. After working on the chapter my references started showing up ...
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TeX capacity exceeded even though I externalize
here is my MWE:
documentclass[10pt, a4paper, twoside, ngerman]{scrartcl}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[ngerman]{babel}
\usepackage{siunitx}
\usepackage{geometry}
\usepackage{tikz} ...
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Again: ! TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [save size=500000] (LuaLaTeX, MikTeX)
I'm getting the following error message compiling my PhD-file (used: LuaLaTeX, MikTeX 2.9):
! TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [save size=500000].
<to be read again>
\relax
l.90 \include{...
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Problems Changing default memory size [main memory size=5000000]
I have a large project (a book) of c 450 pages in length. I am using TexShop on OSX with LaTeX to produce a PDF.
The project builds on the first pass, but on the second pass when it is filling in the ...
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"TeX capacity exceeded, sorry" when drawing graph with PGFplots (whats the max that can be drawn)
Hey I have this graph I'm trying to draw but it uses about 15k (x,y) coordinates. When trying to create this document I'm getting this error that tex capacity is exceeded. Is there any way I can still ...
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Problem with too many sections and subsections
I have been trawling this website for several days but found nothing close to my problem. The only questions that came close, I think, were dealing with inserts and memory requirements. I have cut ...
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Error Message: TeX capacity exceeded [duplicate]
I have a large book (1052 pages) it's got a lot of pictures and even more endnotes (2037 to be exact). We've recently switched to a system where we have a database that all of the reference info is ...
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Memory Exceeded - Words of Memory
Hoping someone might able to assist or point me in a direction to possibly solve this issue if at all can be.
I am creating a very large TEX file using LaTeX pdf. I know after reviewing many posts ...
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Error when creating a new section
I wanted to split a section of my document into to two sections, so I went write \section{title} as usual in the place where I wanted the new section to start. I get this huge error message (the names ...
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tex exceeded capacity when writing simple paragraph
I have a very simple latex code after watching a youtube video which is as follows
\documentclass[a4paper]{article}
%\usepackage[]{tabular}
\usepackage[•]{color}
\title{Kodie Data}
\author{Kodie}
\...
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How to increase memory limit in LuaHBTeX (near-duplicate)
This question is essentially a reiteration of Increasing memory which I posted. I was satisfactorily able to get the magic numbers (! TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [number of strings=480992]) up to ...
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Memory management (flushing) in LaTeX
There are a number of questions here on memory management, but as far as I could see none that quite addresses my problem.
I'm running TeXShop under Mac OS 10.12, typesetting an extremely large book. ...
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Error using standalone.sty - memory exceeded
I have the following in my preamble:
\documentclass[12pt,PhD,wordcount,twoside,anon]{muthesis}
\usepackage{graphicx,stackengine}
\usepackage{url}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usepackage[...
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Increasing memory
I am working on a document which produces ~4000 pages, each with at least 30 graphics per page. There is a lot of font switching and colouring different characters different colours. I am able to ...
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What definition takes up more memory, \def or \chardef (considering \def contains a single character)?
The question is entirely in the title. Let's take \def\testName{a} and \chardef\testName`\a. Which of the definitions requires more memory?
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pgfplots/tikz externalize to avoid memory cap not functioning
I'm trying to use tikz and pgfplots to draw graphics made in R using ggplot but I've been running into the memory cap in TeX:
TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [main memory size=3000000]. \end{tikzpicture}...
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PDFA generated with pdfathesis is 20 times as big as the normal PDF
I was happy to being able to create a PDFA document of my dissertation by means of the pdfathesis package. However, my dissertation in PDF format uses 3MB while the PDFA file is 85.3MB big. I found ...
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How do I compile an extremely large PDF?
I am using LuaLaTeX to compile a file that will have estimated 4,000 pages. Quite obviously, though for Lua engine itself there are no complications in the file, my system runs out of memory on Page ...
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TeX Live: "(lua): Not Enough Memory" | Chinese Fonts [closed]
I have a freshly installed and updated TeX Live system.
I want to compile a simple LuaLaTeX document containing Chinese characters (see below, not a MWE, just for illustration).
During the compilation ...
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Drawing a memory layout diagram with Tikz
I'd like to draw a memory layout diagram in Tikz that looks a bit like the following:
Note that the original was an SVG file, and conversion to PNG causes the weird [Not supported by viewer] errors, ...
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pgfplots: Best practice to avoid "TeX capacity exceeded" when plotting huge data sets?
I want to create some huge pgfplot with three different axis and a lot of data points. In summary there are 20160 lines of data existent.
My problem is: All few hours the values will change ...
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TeX capacity exceeded: Is available main memory size depending on machines RAM?
I had the case that I ran into TeX capacity exceeded several times when compiling a pgfplot with lots of data points on a machine with 4096 MB RAM.
Now I've tried to compile the very same file on a ...
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TeX capacity exceeded: How to increase main memory size of TeX Live on a Debian machine?
When trying to compile a huge pgfplot with several plots I receive the following error:
TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [main memory size=5000000]. \end{document}
There is no error in code as compiling ...
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capacity problem with some packages
I 'm trying to draw the plot of f(x)=sin(1/x) with pgfplot, but I get an error message:
! TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [main memory size=3000000].
I realized that when I delete one of the ...
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Huge pstricks graph max memory exceeded
i have to update a very old reporting system wich uses latex, dvips and gs to generate pdf reports.
On the old server, the following is installed:
pdftex --version
pdfTeX 3.1415926-1.40.10-2.2 (TeX ...
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Is there any way to free up the TeX memory?
As described in this quesion TeX memory is very limited due to the limitation of the computer in time of TeX invention.
I want to know is there any way to free up the TeX memory before reaching its ...
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Increase save_size on texlive on windows
While compiling a short file with spreadtab, I got the following error:
! TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [save size=80000].
Based on other answers in this site, I ran on a Windows shell:
kpsewhich -a ...
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Running out of memory with MikTex
I am attempting to build a number of figures with tikz...one keeps failing to build and the log file indicates I'm running out of memory.
I've used
initexmf --edit-config-file pdflatex
initexmf --...
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How to increase memory size for xelatex in MikTeX
I'd like to enlarge the memory size used by xelatex. In the MikTeX documentation it says:
The name of the configuration file is that of the engine (e.g.,
miktex-pdftex) or format (e.g, miktex-...
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nested list in beamer with numbers and bullets
I want to create a nested list in beamer exactly as follows:
This example is from https://www.sharelatex.com/learn/Lists.
I tried many many examples using enumerate only, enumerate and itemize ...
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How much memory does LuaTeX use?
I've had issues compiling documents this week using LuaTeX on my laptop, where LuaTeX seems to gobble up as much memory as it can, totally crashing the laptop—i.e. requiring a hard reset as it's ...
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TeX capacity exceeded involving \q_nil
The following complete example (that I'm sorry I didn't succeed to make more minimal) used to compile like a charm (I guess with a not updated TL 2017) but that's not the case anymore:
! TeX ...
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TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [main memory size=3000000] [closed]
I am trying to plot a load displacement curve using pgfplots. I am getting the following error message.
"TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [main memory size=3000000]"
I am trying to find a solution to ...
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Process a large glossary?
I have a 1.1MB file with 20k acronyms (gene names). I don't use all of the acronyms in my text, but I still get the error message below, when I try to compile. How can I avoid this?
(./tex/glossary....
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lack of memory for big document
I have big document in LaTeX (approx. 1000 pages, tens used packages, math, hundreds references \bibitem + \cite, cross-references \label + \ref, indices \index, tables and TikZ figures).
The document ...
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plot many lines
I have generated pstricks-code from data:
\psset{unit=10cm}
\begin{pspicture}(0,0)(1,1)
\psline(0.22029880495812262,0.23497192515414284)(0.21975600857793104,0.23394684903842253)
\psline(0....
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