Hmm, it turns out that it's not just any code that triggers this behaviour. However, with the following test case I can reproduce the problem quite deterministically:
(term1): strace -p `pidof sage.bin` -e trace='stat' (term2): sage: for i in range(100): float(1)/2 Regards, E. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---