No, it's off. I turned it on several days ago to try, but had some issues so 
switched it off.

-- Éric

On Nov 20, 2011, at 0:56, Robby Findler <ro...@eecs.northwestern.edu> wrote:

> 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
>> 
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