install and upgrade scipy encounter disk space problem

[Blair Zajac]

On 10/23/11 8:55 PM, Ke Wu wrote:
> Thanks Ryan,
>
> I tried +gcc45 and something happened, I traced the delta of my disk space and found that when the scipy is building, the swap files in /private/var/vm/ were getting abnormal bigger and bigger.
>
> And I don’t really know what the swap files are….
>
> So that I am no sure if it is because of my machine’s setting or because of the port that while installing scipy on my machine, they got that huge…

You should run top -u or Activity Monitor to see which process is using that 
much memory, that would help to debug it.

Blair