I wrote:
> For an actual fix, it looks like we have got three alternatives:
> * find out what's chewing up so many strings and get rid of it.
Some tracing suggests that there may indeed be a single culprit that we
could fix or nuke. Practically all of the string pool is consumed by
strings like these:
x@116714
p@116714
x@116715
p@116715
x@116718
p@116718
x@116719
p@116719
x@116720
p@116720
x@116721
p@116721
x@116722
p@116722
These are presumably names of TeX control sequences, but I haven't found
what's defining them.
regards, tom lane