Pandoc error while converting .md to .docx file

Question

While attempting to convert .md to docx file using command line:

pandoc CustomerChurn_predict.md -s -o churn.docx

I got following error:

pandoc: getMBlocks: VirtualAlloc MEM_COMMIT failed: The paging file is too small for this operation to complete.

Answer 1

This seems like a memory allocation error.

See: VirtualAlloc MEM_COMMIT and MEM_RESERVE

Pandoc may use rather large amount of memory for conversion.

See also Pandoc's FAQ:

Pandoc sometimes uses too much memory. How can I limit the memory used by pandoc?

pandoc +RTS -M30m -RTS will limit heap memory to 30MB. When converting a document requires more than this, an out of memory error will be issued.

The error message reports the limitation of your page file:

The paging file is too small for this operation to complete.

Can you increase the page file size?