Do you have online check syntax turned on? It uses more memory. Robby
On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 6:10 PM, Eric Tanter <etan...@dcc.uchile.cl> wrote: > Hi, > > I have noticed a quite serious problem with memory usage lately. > > Basically, I've been spending my time the last two days with 5 scribble files > open, compiling/editing them when needed. > > DrRacket starts occupying 300 MB (no buffers open), 360MB with the buffers > opened (the files are really not long, 150 lines max). After the first > scribble-to-html run, DrRacket is at around 500MB. Once I do the same on all > 5 buffers, memory footprint is 700MB. Another run on the first one (bigger, > includes the 4 others), up to 900MB. From then on, it almost never goes down, > and reached up to 1.3GB. Point at which my whole machine becomes really slow > because of no more free memory, so I basically have to quite DrRacket and > start over. > > I'm not doing anything else with Racket than editing/compiling these same > files over and over again. > > I even tried to kill the browser to see if that would be related, but it > seems not. The problem was worse with Safari, because the latest version has > some memory issues too. So I switched to Firefox, which remains stable in the > 150-300MB range. > > I'm on mac os x 10.7 and racket 5.2. > > Is that a known issue? is there some configuration of DrRacket that would > alleviate the issue? > > Thanks, > > -- Éric > > _________________________________________________ > For list-related administrative tasks: > http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/users > _________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/users
