Any one up for OSX work.

Wow No I have not experienced this problem. Were would I start with this.

Hmm Off the top of my head … Paul your checkout of direct is at least a week difrent from the lower branches of the tree. May be wotj looking at time sinking your checkout. Besides that hmmmmm

Just an Idea…

read the manpage 3 for malloc

Either get it to core or run python under gdb and set it to abort on error
Back trace and see if there are any clues in there!

I can assure you I had some big project up and running in panda.

Roger