install and upgrade scipy encounter disk space problem

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Oct 24, 2011, at 16:05, Ke Wu wrote:

> On Oct 24, 2011, at 12:05 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> 
>> 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. 
>> 
>> 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
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>> https://trac.macports.org/ticket/31660
> 
> Should I report a bug on the trac?
> 
> If so, what kind of information do I need to provide?

Probably reporting a bug in Trac would be a good idea. I have no idea why these problems are happening. I also don't have Lion to test with myself. Since it's affecting different ports it sounds like a bug in Xcode or Lion to me, but I wouldn't know how to determine that for sure.