[OS X TeX] crashing

George Gratzer gratzer at ms.umanitoba.ca
Fri Jul 21 13:49:30 EDT 2006


Interesting, it seems to go up about a 1 MB per typesetting.

So I should quit before it is too high? What is too high?

GG

On Jul 21, 2006, at 12:41 PM, Gary L. Gray wrote:

>
> On Jul 21, 2006, at 1:15 PM, George Gratzer wrote:
>
>> I am spending my days carrying out the corrections sent by the  
>> volunteers. I have the corrections open in Adobe Acrobat 7.0  
>> Professional, which stay open for several days.
>>
>> During the same time TeXShop crashes maybe a dozen times. Since I  
>> typeset after each correction, and TeXShop is smart enough to save  
>> before typesetting (thanks god), I never loose any data.
>>
>> Nevertheless, I am curious. Am I the only one observing this  
>> behaviour? Why I some applications crash proof, other not?
>>
>> I run DiskUtility regularly to correct permissions. (No repair  
>> necessary.)
>
> TeXShop crashing after many typeset runs (which usually equates to  
> being open a long time) is a much reported problem. You can find  
> that it has been reported on the TeXShop forum at:
>
> http://apfelwiki.de/forum/viewforum.php?f=6
>
> and also on the bug reporter at TeXShop's SourceForge web site:
>
> https://sourceforge.net/projects/texshop/
>
> I have provided a number of crash logs with the hope that this  
> issue can be fixed. I suspect that it has something to do with a  
> terrible memory leak that can be found in TeXShop. You can see it  
> if you monitor the memory usage of TeXShop in the Activity Monitor.  
> That is, watch its memory usage grow after each typeset run. In  
> some cases, it is rather dramatic.
>
> Regards,
>   Gary
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