Re: How to increase main memory via texmf-defaults .ini?

The documentation says you also have to redo the formats.

B. Alfonsi


On Wed, 20 Mar 2013 19:57:26 -0500, CHOU Yu-Chieh <[email protected]>
wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am running miktex 2.9 and currently compiling a .tex file involving a
lot
> pgf/tikz figures leads to shortage of memory(tried both xelatex
> filename.tex or xelatex --main-memory=5000000 filename.tex),
> 
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> Runaway definition?
> ->
> ! TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [main memory size=3000000].
> \pgfplotslistpushbackglobal ...e \t@pgfplots@tokb
>                                                   \the \t@pgfplots@toka
}
> l.141 ... ({5},{y},{sqrt(5)+(1+sqrt(5))*sqrt(y)});
> 
> --- HELP ---
> No help available
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 
> 
> I know in Texlive, I can increase the default value of 'main_memory= '
in
> texmf.cnf to a greater number, then update the new setting with
> fmtutil-sys. So I can succeed in compiling this file.
> 
> I saw a similar entry in texmf-defaults.ini under
MIKTEXROOT/miktex/config/
> and I increased the default number 3000000 to 5000000, but it doesn't
help,
> I don't know what's the corresponding command like fmtutil-sys in
texlive
> to refresh new setting. I tried 'refresh FNDB' and 'update formats' in
> miktex options, they didn't help.
> 
> Any ideas are greatly appreciated. Thanks.
> 
> Best,
> CHOU YU-CHIEH
>
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