large source occupying on myfinal composition
Hello, I finally finish my concert overture, which has just 250 measures, 34 pages. The compiling is a nightmare! When I used normal way, the computer turned into a circumstance like it was about to crash. Then I used Process Tamer, a small util program to reduce source wasting. At first, it's ok to do anything while compiling, but after 5 minutes, the computer again became very slow. Then I went away to listen to The Firebird. After its 45 minutes' music, Lilypond was still compiling. I checked the task manager, and found it first used around 120M of RAM, but then continuous ascend to over 520M, and then fall to 330M, and up to 472... After another about 50 minutes, The score was at last ready. The whole process took about 110 minutes!!! I'd like to know why Lilypond should use such a large memory, since cpu is not taken too much (but instead, system idle process.exe took very large percent (up to 94%) of cpu). I think I must buy a Win7 machine with 4 core cpu and 8gb RAM, otherwise I can't write a piece like The Firebird, which will burn my current machine into dust :-) Regards Haipeng ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
Re: large source occupying on myfinal composition
There are some attempts to optimize the speed; one simple patch reduces the time required by something like 40%. But you should expect such problems from an unstable development version. Cheers, - Graham On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 06:22:56PM +0800, 胡海鹏 - Hu Haipeng wrote: Hello, I finally finish my concert overture, which has just 250 measures, 34 pages. The compiling is a nightmare! When I used normal way, the computer turned into a circumstance like it was about to crash. Then I used Process Tamer, a small util program to reduce source wasting. At first, it's ok to do anything while compiling, but after 5 minutes, the computer again became very slow. Then I went away to listen to The Firebird. After its 45 minutes' music, Lilypond was still compiling. I checked the task manager, and found it first used around 120M of RAM, but then continuous ascend to over 520M, and then fall to 330M, and up to 472... After another about 50 minutes, The score was at last ready. The whole process took about 110 minutes!!! I'd like to know why Lilypond should use such a large memory, since cpu is not taken too much (but instead, system idle process.exe took very large percent (up to 94%) of cpu). I think I must buy a Win7 machine with 4 core cpu and 8gb RAM, otherwise I can't write a piece like The Firebird, which will burn my current machine into dust :-) Regards Haipeng -- A:uIeOuOD--oIIo/O *Aa.NOEIa:ONuC,?'ouA:Ei 1/4thAd--L-? ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
Re: large source occupying on myfinal composition
Not that this is very *helpful* but when I've had this situation, I process the first half of the score separate from the second half, adjusting page numbers if needed. I had to do this with my orchestra piece -- it ended up saving an hour of processing time! On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 4:51 AM, Graham Percival gra...@percival-music.ca wrote: There are some attempts to optimize the speed; one simple patch reduces the time required by something like 40%. But you should expect such problems from an unstable development version. Cheers, - Graham On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 06:22:56PM +0800, 胡海鹏 - Hu Haipeng wrote: Hello, I finally finish my concert overture, which has just 250 measures, 34 pages. The compiling is a nightmare! When I used normal way, the computer turned into a circumstance like it was about to crash. Then I used Process Tamer, a small util program to reduce source wasting. At first, it's ok to do anything while compiling, but after 5 minutes, the computer again became very slow. Then I went away to listen to The Firebird. After its 45 minutes' music, Lilypond was still compiling. I checked the task manager, and found it first used around 120M of RAM, but then continuous ascend to over 520M, and then fall to 330M, and up to 472... After another about 50 minutes, The score was at last ready. The whole process took about 110 minutes!!! I'd like to know why Lilypond should use such a large memory, since cpu is not taken too much (but instead, system idle process.exe took very large percent (up to 94%) of cpu). I think I must buy a Win7 machine with 4 core cpu and 8gb RAM, otherwise I can't write a piece like The Firebird, which will burn my current machine into dust :-) Regards Haipeng -- A:uIeOuOD--oIIo/O *Aa.NOEIa:ONuC,?'ouA:Ei 1/4thAd--L-? ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user -- Neil Thornock, D.M. The recent BYU Symphony Orchestra performance of Plutoids: http://neilthornock.net/mp3s/plutoids.mp3 Assistant Professor of Music Composition/Theory Brigham Young University ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
Re: large source occupying on myfinal composition
And of course you make heavy use of \set Score.skipTypesetting = ##t ? So you don't have to wait so often ... Best Urs Am 15.07.2010 21:04, schrieb Neil Thornock: Not that this is very *helpful* but when I've had this situation, I process the first half of the score separate from the second half, adjusting page numbers if needed. I had to do this with my orchestra piece -- it ended up saving an hour of processing time! On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 4:51 AM, Graham Percival gra...@percival-music.ca wrote: There are some attempts to optimize the speed; one simple patch reduces the time required by something like 40%. But you should expect such problems from an unstable development version. Cheers, - Graham On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 06:22:56PM +0800, 胡海鹏 - Hu Haipeng wrote: Hello, I finally finish my concert overture, which has just 250 measures, 34 pages. The compiling is a nightmare! When I used normal way, the computer turned into a circumstance like it was about to crash. Then I used Process Tamer, a small util program to reduce source wasting. At first, it's ok to do anything while compiling, but after 5 minutes, the computer again became very slow. Then I went away to listen to The Firebird. After its 45 minutes' music, Lilypond was still compiling. I checked the task manager, and found it first used around 120M of RAM, but then continuous ascend to over 520M, and then fall to 330M, and up to 472... After another about 50 minutes, The score was at last ready. The whole process took about 110 minutes!!! I'd like to know why Lilypond should use such a large memory, since cpu is not taken too much (but instead, system idle process.exe took very large percent (up to 94%) of cpu). I think I must buy a Win7 machine with 4 core cpu and 8gb RAM, otherwise I can't write a piece like The Firebird, which will burn my current machine into dust :-) Regards Haipeng -- A:uIeOuOD--oIIo/O *Aa.NOEIa:ONuC,?'ouA:Ei 1/4thAd--L-? ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
Re: large source occupying on myfinal composition
Yes, I just put skipTypesetting at the end of whichever lines are necessary and then comment/uncomment them as needed. Very fast. I should say, in response to Graham's comment, that I have noticed this behavior on the stable version -- the only one I've used for some time now. On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 1:55 PM, Urs Liska lilyp...@ursliska.de wrote: And of course you make heavy use of \set Score.skipTypesetting = ##t ? So you don't have to wait so often ... Best Urs Am 15.07.2010 21:04, schrieb Neil Thornock: Not that this is very *helpful* but when I've had this situation, I process the first half of the score separate from the second half, adjusting page numbers if needed. I had to do this with my orchestra piece -- it ended up saving an hour of processing time! On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 4:51 AM, Graham Percival gra...@percival-music.ca wrote: There are some attempts to optimize the speed; one simple patch reduces the time required by something like 40%. But you should expect such problems from an unstable development version. Cheers, - Graham On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 06:22:56PM +0800, 胡海鹏 - Hu Haipeng wrote: Hello, I finally finish my concert overture, which has just 250 measures, 34 pages. The compiling is a nightmare! When I used normal way, the computer turned into a circumstance like it was about to crash. Then I used Process Tamer, a small util program to reduce source wasting. At first, it's ok to do anything while compiling, but after 5 minutes, the computer again became very slow. Then I went away to listen to The Firebird. After its 45 minutes' music, Lilypond was still compiling. I checked the task manager, and found it first used around 120M of RAM, but then continuous ascend to over 520M, and then fall to 330M, and up to 472... After another about 50 minutes, The score was at last ready. The whole process took about 110 minutes!!! I'd like to know why Lilypond should use such a large memory, since cpu is not taken too much (but instead, system idle process.exe took very large percent (up to 94%) of cpu). I think I must buy a Win7 machine with 4 core cpu and 8gb RAM, otherwise I can't write a piece like The Firebird, which will burn my current machine into dust :-) Regards Haipeng -- A:uIeOuOD--oIIo/O *Aa.NOEIa:ONuC,?'ouA:Ei 1/4thAd--L-? ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user -- Neil Thornock, D.M. The recent BYU Symphony Orchestra performance of Plutoids: http://neilthornock.net/mp3s/plutoids.mp3 Assistant Professor of Music Composition/Theory Brigham Young University ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
