[hts-users:00341] Re: about delta

["Nicholas Volk" <nvolk@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Oops,

Sorry, not megabytes but gigabytes.
I meant that maximum amount of memory that a process (HERest) can have
is 2GB.

-n

> Hi Nicholas,
>
> Thanks for the hints. I use Festival version 1.4.2 RELEASE July 2001 and
> Speech Tools VERSION 1.2.3 January 2003. I'll try if the recent versions
> can be build using gcc.
>
> It would be a serious problem if the process size on 32-bit Windows is
> limited to 2MB. I tried to specify a stack size of 32MB by using the gcc
> linker option -Wl,--stack=0x2000000 but it has no effect. Mhmm...
>
> Regards,
> Matthias
>
> On Thu, 01 Jun 2006 19:21:36 +0200, Nicholas Volk <nvolk@xxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> As far as I know, the maximum process size on 32-bit Windows is
>> 2MB. I've seen 1,6MB allocated to HEREst just before a crash.
>> This has caused me problems sometimes on Windows, while the same
>> training data worked well on Linux. However I was using
>> proprietary databases at the time.
>> I guess that this causes the problem.
>> 64-bit Windows might work better (or does it: gcc is still a 32-bit
>> compiler).
>>
>> When I last built Festival on Cygwin (in 2005), it went ok.
>> I am aware that latest 3.4.x and/or  latest version of Festival
>> might be problems under Cygwin. You might try an older
>> version of Festival. 1.4.4 should be fine unless the problems
>> are gcc or Festival compability related.
>>
>> I'm assuming that you used Festival 1.9.5.
>> The unofficial 1.9.6 version of Festival might or might not also
>> work on Cygwin.
>>
>> regards,
>>   Nicholas
>