[racket] v 5.93 Dr Racket Freezing

From: Kevin Forchione (lysseus at gmail.com)
Date: Sat Feb 8 14:14:51 EST 2014

Yes, the memory limit. I agree. It does seem low. However, v5.3.6 of Dr Racket does function at that level, while v5.92 and v5.93 simply present the windows but with no functionality whatsoever. Worse yet, to restore that you have to go into v5.3.6 to reset the limit to something higher.

On Feb 8, 2014, at 10:01 AM, John Clements <clements at brinckerhoff.org> wrote:

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> On Feb 7, 2014, at 2:51 PM, Kevin Forchione wrote:
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>> Has anyone else experienced Dr Racket freezing for Mac OS X 64-bit v5.93 when the memory limit is set to 8MB? 
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> Are you referring to the limit set by using the "Memory Limit" menu item? If so, 8MB seems REALLY low. I see that it's specified as the minimum, and I'm not the right one to comment on that, but I'm not entirely surprised to see poor behavior at that level.
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> John
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