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


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