i found a possible memory leak in typeprimitive, the used typeface and library were not destroyed, but it seems it is still leaking somewhere. running the following script slowly eats up the memory. (clear) (define type 0) (define (animate) (destroy type) (set! type (build-type "Bitstream-Vera-Sans-Mono.ttf" "test"))) (every-frame (animate)) best, gabor