large source occupying on myfinal composition

[胡海鹏 - Hu Haipeng]

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

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