LaTeX Memory Size Problem

Today I encountered a strange LaTeX problem:

! TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [main memory size=1000000].

Using Fink on Mac Os X, you can find the texmf.cnf file in the /sw/share/texmf/web2c directory and change its memory size entry. To let LaTeX dump the new setting into its system, you’ll also need to call fmtutil --all. After that, the new memory size property is active.