[Sc-devel] Re: [BUG] Re: sclang memory usage

[Tim Blechmann]

>> >> well, it would also be interesting to know, what emacs does to
>> >> sclang to
>> >> prevent the heap from growing to infinity ...
>> >
>> > it creates a pipe interface between sclang and emacs, as far as I
>> > know.
>> >
>> > Maybe Stefan Kersten has some more insights in the problem?
>>
>> it might have to do with how poll(2) behaves under a terminal vs. when
>> connected to a pipe, i.e. on OSX this seems to work:
>>
>> $ cat | sclang
>>
>> just an idea, does this help on linux, too?
> 
> nope.
> 
> the interesting thing is also, that it only has the behaviour, when a
> file is read by sclang.
> Could it be that the file descriptor of the file is not getting closed,
> and that that is creating the problem? or something like that?
> 
> sincerely,
> Marije

hi all,

has there been some progress with this issue?

thanks, tim

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