[tex-live] Memory leak in TL Net Installer when installing from local mirror ?

Philip TAYLOR (Ret'd) P.Taylor at Rhul.Ac.Uk
Mon Aug 11 21:02:27 CEST 2008


The install of TL 2008 from my local Cambridge
mirror has just near-completed (by which I mean
that the GUI has paused with the "Finish"
button shewing) but the VM manager reported
that the system was becoming dangerously low
on memory, and on checking I see that it
peaked at 6Gb.  I cannot imagine what in the
installer might require such enormous resources,
so I wonder if there might be a memory leak ?

It is worth reporting that the VM message
did not appear on a smaller (1GB, instead
of 2Gb in the present machine) when installing
over the network from Cambridge.

** Phil.


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