install and upgrade scipy encounter disk space problem

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Oct 23, 2011, at 22:55, Ke Wu wrote:

> 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….

Swap files are files on disk that your computer creates and uses when it runs out of physical memory.

> 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…

Sounds like the runaway memory usage other Lion / Xcode 4.2 users have reported with other ports like gcc and cdf.

https://trac.macports.org/ticket/31604

https://trac.macports.org/ticket/31660