Too many icons will lock machine

[jefflembeck]

Due to the nature of how directory-colorfy works, once you get to enough phantom processes being spun up, the whole thing will lock your machine up.

This bug is pretty critical.

[hassan-zaheer]

Is there any workaround to this that I can try while its fixed?

[jefflembeck]

The problem at this point is that there are too many icons/colors, leading to too many processes being spun (this is what we're fixing). The only work around I can think of, is to find a way to split up your icons into several different folders, then run grunticon on each of the different folders (it's a multitask, so you CAN set it up to run many different tasks.

    grunticon: {
      all: {
        files: [{
          expand: true,
          cwd: /some/directory
          src: ['*.svg', '*.png'],
          dest: "dist/css/grunticon/"
        }],
        options: {
          cssprefix: '.icon-',
          cssbasepath: "/",
          enhanceSVG: true
        }
      },
      foo: {
       // same config as above, with a different cwd
      },
      bar: {
        // same config as above but another cwd
      }
    },

Afterward, you should be able to concat all of your created css files from the different tasks to create one for loading.

This SHOULD work, but is far less than ideal. We're working on the fix and hopefully will have something soon.

[johnbender]

@hassanzaheer123

I just pushed a possible fix to the large-run branch if you want to try it.

[jefflembeck]

Fix checked in for 2.0.3