[racket-dev] DrRacket crash

From: Pierpaolo Bernardi (olopierpa at gmail.com)
Date: Mon Apr 18 10:49:50 EDT 2011

On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 16:45, Robby Findler
<robby at eecs.northwestern.edu> wrote:
> The limits in the DrRacket executable are not the same as the limits
> that you might expect from just looking at the amount of memory you
> have on that machine and, judging from a quick look at the program, it
> seems to be using a lot of memory.
>
> So, I'd suggest you either lower the memory limit or watch the
> drracket process via some OS-level memory monitoring tool (under
> windows 7 there is something called "resource monitor" that would
> work; not sure about XP) to see if you are indeed running out of
> memory.

Yes, I tried with unlimited memory.  And there's plenty of free ram
when it happens.


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