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 _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-dev
