install and upgrade scipy encounter disk space problem

[Ke Wu]

Thanks

Should I report a bug on the trac?

If so, what kind of information do I need to provide?

-DR

On Oct 24, 2011, at 12:05 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:

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> On Oct 23, 2011, at 22:55, Ke Wu wrote:
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>> 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. 
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>> And I don’t really know what the swap files are….
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> Swap files are files on disk that your computer creates and uses when it runs out of physical memory.
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>> 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…
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> Sounds like the runaway memory usage other Lion / Xcode 4.2 users have reported with other ports like gcc and cdf.
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> https://trac.macports.org/ticket/31604
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> https://trac.macports.org/ticket/31660
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