chiraprakash@MV3600.BMEN.TULANE.EDU (Chiraprakash Nayak) (08/21/90)
Helo there; While TeXing a 500+page document file (in VM/CMS), TeX aborted after about 314 pages of output giving an error message as to "TeX capacity exceeded, pool size so-and-so". Even when storage is defined to be 8MB, the problem remains. Other than splitting the file to two smaller ones and changing page numbering and merging the table of contents and subject-index and .... is there a better way to simply extend the "capacity" of TeX? How is the capacity bound to the VM/CMS site limits? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance. --Nayak ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chiraprakash Nayak Brain Physics Group O:(504) 865-5897 Department of Biomedical Engg. R:(504) 866-3715 Tulane University New Orleans, La 70118 Internet: Chiraprakash@mv3600.bmen.tulane.edu; Bm2gebg@vm.tcs.tulane.edu; nayakcp@convex1.tcs.tulane.edu -------------------------------------------------------------------------
dhosek@sif.claremont.edu (Hosek, Donald A.) (08/21/90)
In article <0093B7BA.3432A200@MV3600.BMEN.TULANE.EDU>, chiraprakash@MV3600.BMEN.TULANE.EDU (Chiraprakash Nayak) writes... >While TeXing a 500+page document file (in VM/CMS), TeX aborted after about >314 pages of output giving an error message as to "TeX capacity exceeded, pool >size so-and-so". Even when storage is defined to be 8MB, the problem remains. >Other than splitting the file to two smaller ones and changing page numbering >and merging the table of contents and subject-index and .... is there a better >way to simply extend the "capacity" of TeX? How is the capacity bound to the >VM/CMS site limits? TeX's capacity is determined by the sizes of several internal arrays. This capacity can be increased by editing the change file (on VM/CMS, you'd be looking for the file TEX CMS-CHAN) to increase the appropriate value. Most capacities are set in a single change section which will have the format @x .. the original values .. @y .. the new system values .. @z. Once this change is made, TeX will need to be re-compiled from the WEB sources (not too complicated of a process although somewhat intimidating the first time one tries it). Some values may require recompiling INITEX as well, but those are uncommon and labelled as such. Please note that there are upper bounds to the sizes of the arrays (the most important is that most TeX installations can only have 65535 words of main memory storage). A change of this sort should generally only be done by the local TeX support people. On VM/CMS, if the virtual storage is the problem, rather than getting a TeX capacity exceeded error, you will get a CMS error indicating that storage is exceeded (or some such, it's been a while since I last used TeX on VM). If that error does not occur, DEF STOR will do no good. -dh --- Don Hosek TeX, LaTeX, and Metafont support, consulting dhosek@ymir.claremont.edu installation and production work. dhosek@ymir.bitnet Free Estimates. uunet!jarthur!ymir Phone: 714-625-0147 finger dhosek@ymir.claremont.edu for more info