Hello,

On Thursday 18 September 2008 20:37, Matthias Kilian wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> does anyone else see haddock using huge amounts of memory (more
> than 640MB) when building ghc-HEAD? It's always running out of
> memory for me when haddocking the compiler itself (i386, OpenBSD,
> datasize limit is set to 640MB):

I have seen this too on the linux buildbot slave that I run. And andygill 
reported something similar on #ghc yesterday. So you are definitely not alone 
with this problem.

> 
> gmake[1]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/ghc/ghc/compiler'
> /var/tmp/ghc/ghc/libraries/cabal-bin /var/tmp/ghc/1/bin/ghc 
> /var/tmp/ghc/ghc/libraries/bootstrapping.conf 
haddock --distpref dist-stage2 \
>                          --haddock-option=--optghc=-DSTAGE=2 \
>                          
--with-haddock=/var/tmp/ghc/ghc/utils/haddock/install-inplace/bin/haddock
> Preprocessing library ghc-6.9...
> Running Haddock for ghc-6.9...
> Warning: The documentation for the following packages are not installed. No 
links will be generated to these packages: rts-1.0
> Preprocessing library ghc-6.9...
> haddock: out of memory (requested 2097152 bytes)
> gmake[1]: *** [doc.stage.2] Error 1
> gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/ghc/ghc/compiler'
> gmake: *** [stage2] Error 2
> 
> 
> I wonder wether this is an OpenBSD specific bug, just an ordinary
> memory leak, or Haddock really needing that much memory.(I'll just
> disable haddocking for now to proceed with testing)

OpenBSD-specific it is not.

> 
> Ciao,
>       Kili
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Best regards
Thorkil

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