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How on earth have you had iTerm use up so much memory it's given you an error? I've been using iTerm for years on some absolute crap machines, abusing iTerm wit
by michaelmcdonald 3y ago
How on earth have you had iTerm use up so much memory it's given you an error? I've been using iTerm for years on some absolute crap machines, abusing iTerm with tmux and numerous customizations, and have never received that error.
- 0x457 3y agoUnlimited scroll buffer + compiling something large with verbose logs non-stop?
- awestroke 3y agoWell just limit the scroll buffer then
- inkyoto 3y agoSuch advice is not helpful. The infinite scroll buffer is useful for some people with long lived terminal sessions, and that helps them with their respective workflows and habits. I am one of them. The parent ran out of memory with iTerm not because of the infinite scrolling buffer but because of iTerm having memory leaks. The memory leaks in iTerm used to be a big issue, and it appears they still have not fully fixed. Other terminal apps can swell up to over 1Gb of the RSS, yet they do not crash. Provided there is sufficient RAM available, the inifinte scrolling can prove to be benefecial.
- WesolyKubeczek 3y agoUnlimited scroll buffer, but good scrollback hygiene (I clear scrollback after I don't need it), and it ran out of memory by just sitting there — I was using something else during that time and all terminals had been at the shell prompts.