LaTeX tikz main_memory problems on OS X
Today I had to increase the main memory of my LaTeX installation yet another time and it required quite a while to collect the information again. Therefore, I am pasting my steps here as a future reference.
First of all, this is the error message I try to get rid of:
! TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [main memory size=5000000].
It is caused by my tikz
figures that have been created using the tikzDevice
package for R
.
I fixed my problem using the following steps:
- Open the specific
texmf.cnf
and go to line 697:
sudo vim /usr/local/texlive/2013/texmf-dist/web2c/texmf.cnf +697
- Change the value
main_memory
to 9000000 (was enough for me). - Run fmutil helper script:
sudo fmtutil-sys --all
After that LaTeX ran fine again.
That’s it,
iss