[issue33000] IDLEX GUI consumes all RAM for scrollback buffer, uses 161Bytes / character stored

John Brearley added the comment: Hi Terry: The icon on my Win 7 desktop points to: "C:\WinPython\IDLEX (Python GUI).exe". This was part of the 430MB installer file WinPython-64bit-3.6.4.0Qt5b4.exe from https://sourceforge.net/projects/winpython. I attached a screen shot

[issue33000] IDLEX GUI consumes all RAM for scrollback buffer, uses 161Bytes / character stored

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: I did not close either window before looking at the Task Manager number. Once your program is debugged, I cannot think of any advantage of running it through IDLE instead of directly with the Python interpreter. Since you repeat 'IDLEX' I

[issue33000] IDLEX GUI consumes all RAM for scrollback buffer, uses 161Bytes / character stored

John Brearley added the comment: Hi Terry: I am exploring the value of a language specific editor and runtime environment. Its definitely a large step up from Windows Notepad and Gnome Gedit. Perhaps some notes in the IDLEX documentation regarding the development versus

[issue33000] IDLEX GUI consumes all RAM for scrollback buffer, uses 161Bytes / character stored

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: IDLEX is an independently developed and distributed set of IDLE eXtensions. We have nothing to do with it. IDLE, as the name suggests and the doc spells out, is an Integrated Development and Learning Environment. It is not a production

[issue33000] IDLEX GUI consumes all RAM for scrollback buffer, uses 161Bytes / character stored

New submission from John Brearley : While running a tensorflow script in the IDLEX GUI that runs for 8 million steps and produce 2 lines stdout per step, my PC used all 16GB RAM and crashed the python process, not to mention messed up other apps, like Firefox & Norton