Re: POLL: GC options

2001-08-07 Thread Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk
Mon, 06 Aug 2001 15:40:50 -0700, Thomas Hallgren [EMAIL PROTECTED] pisze: Regarding the maximum heap size, to avoid letting the heap grow too large, you could perhaps take into account the number of page faults that occur during garbage collection, or the ratio between CPU time and real

Re: POLL: GC options

2001-08-07 Thread Volker Stolz
In local.glasgow-haskell-users, you wrote: Issue 1: should the maximum heap size be unbounded by default? Currently the maximum heap size is bounded at 64M. Arguments for: this stops programs with a space leak eating all your swap space. Arguments against: it's annoying to have to raise the

RE: POLL: GC options

2001-08-07 Thread Simon Marlow
In local.glasgow-haskell-users, you wrote: Issue 1: should the maximum heap size be unbounded by default? Currently the maximum heap size is bounded at 64M. Arguments for: this stops programs with a space leak eating all your swap space. Arguments against: it's annoying to have to

POLL: GC options

2001-08-06 Thread Simon Marlow
Folks, There is some disagreement over how the GC options should be specified for Haskell programs. I've identified a couple of issues below, comments and opinions are greatly appreciated. If there's a concensus that things should be changed, then I'll make the changes for the next release.

Re: POLL: GC options

2001-08-06 Thread Josef Svenningsson
On Mon, 6 Aug 2001, Simon Marlow wrote: Issue 1: should the maximum heap size be unbounded by default? Currently the maximum heap size is bounded at 64M. Arguments for: this stops programs with a space leak eating all your swap space. Arguments against: it's annoying to have to raise the

RE: POLL: GC options

2001-08-06 Thread Simon Marlow
On Mon, 6 Aug 2001, Simon Marlow wrote: Issue 1: should the maximum heap size be unbounded by default? Currently the maximum heap size is bounded at 64M. Arguments for: this stops programs with a space leak eating all your swap space. Arguments against: it's annoying to have to

Re: POLL: GC options

2001-08-06 Thread Dylan Thurston
On Mon, Aug 06, 2001 at 12:22:07PM +0100, Simon Marlow wrote: I think that if there should be a default limit it would be nice to be able to set it at compile time. This is something that I've wanted for quite some time. If I know that the program I am compiling is likely to need 100M

Re: POLL: GC options

2001-08-06 Thread Thomas Hallgren
Simon Marlow wrote: Folks, There is some disagreement over how the GC options should be specified for Haskell programs. Something that I think would be very convenient, help alleviate some of the problems discussed, and still very easy to implement, would be support for setting run-time

Re: POLL: GC options

2001-08-06 Thread Mike Thomas
Hi Simon. Issue 1: should the maximum heap size be unbounded by default? Currently the maximum heap size is bounded at 64M. Arguments for: this stops programs with a space leak eating all your swap space. Arguments against: it's annoying to have to raise the limit when you legitimately