On Sep 10, 2008, at 9:41 PM, Steffen Wolfrum wrote: > ... ok fine again. I just increased the weak settings by ten: > > hash_extra = 500000 % 50000 > pool_size.context = 20000000 % 2000000 > > But I assume the fact that these variables have predefined values > indicates that they shouldn't be fantastic high. Otherwise why would > they have these precise values anyway? > > So I am wondering: what is the right value, what is too high and what > happens if the values are too high? > > Steffen > Maybe of interest: here's what Taco wrote in December 2007:
> Increase hash_extra, as Hans said. There is (virtuallly) no limit > to that. As to the question why the values are so low in texmf.cnf: keep in mind that TeX runs on some pretty old computers with maybe only 256 MB of RAM. When you prepare such a big system as TeXLive which has to run on all sorts of platforms and hardware, you prefer to err on the low side. Thomas ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________
