RE: ghc-Bugs-1071030

On 24 November 2004 01:45, Duncan Coutts wrote:

> Further to this bug report:
>
http://www.haskell.org//pipermail/glasgow-haskell-bugs/2004-November/004
454.html
>
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=108032&aid=1071030&grou
p_id=8032
> 
> Gour has done some further investigation:
> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=70982#c10
> 
> The main thing he found was that giving a large stack +RTS -K10M
> alleviated the problem (mostly).

That crash message is from the compacting collector; you might be able
to get it to crash sooner by giving the +RTS -c option (turns on the
compacting collector always, not just when memory gets tight).

I don't have an amd64 box to test this on, I'm afraid.

Cheers,
        Simon