#13831: Upon quitting Sage, Maxima may keep running and eat up all memory
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Reporter: nthiery | Owner: was
Type: defect | Status: new
Priority: major | Milestone: sage-5.6
Component: interfaces | Resolution:
Keywords: maxima orphans | Work issues:
Report Upstream: N/A | Reviewers:
Authors: | Merged in:
Dependencies: | Stopgaps:
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Comment (by leif):
Replying to [comment:6 leif]:
> So apparently ''the pexpect interface'' (when run from `make`, but not
in an interactive Sage session) causes Maxima to do something weird
afterwards...
{{{
#!make
maxima-from-sage-prompt:
/path/to/sage -c
'maxima("rk(-x*(y-2)*y,y,1,[x,0,1,0.500000000000000]);")'
maxima-from-sage-prompt-cleanup:
/path/to/sage -c
'maxima("rk(-x*(y-2)*y,y,1,[x,0,1,0.500000000000000]);"); from
sage.interfaces.maxima import __doctest_cleanup; __doctest_cleanup()'
}}}
While the first leaves Maxima running (eating up all memory, at least
until `malloc()` or similar fails), the latter doesn't...
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