Re: make doc problem

[Julien Rioux]

On 26/01/2012 11:13 AM, Reinhold Kainhofer wrote:
> On 22/01/2012 20:58, Julien Rioux wrote:
> > Thanks, you're quite right CPU is not the limiting factor for the
> > build. Disk access and usage of swap when compiling
> > input/regression/collated-files slows down the build to a crawl for me.
>
> The problem here is that lilypond builds up memory from 400MB to ~1GB
> without releasing...
> Most of these allocations don't seem to be memory leaks, but rather due
> to guile.
>
> Cheers,
> Reinhold

Is it a bug? We're talking about lilypond running with the 
-dread-input-files flag here. Once a snippet has been processed and 
lilypond moves on to the next one, there is no reason to hold onto the 
memory used by the previous snippet, right?

--
Julien