"Simon Marlow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 16 December 2005 10:05, Joel Reymont wrote: > >> I'm trying to restrict GHC to 800Mb of heap at runtime by passing in >> +RTS -M800M, the machine has 1Gb of memory and top shows free >> physical memory dropping below 175Mb.
> -M800m should do more or less the right thing, but it is possible for > GHC to exceed this figure by a small percentage. Is there any chance there is a bug in recent GHCs (or perhaps Linux?) affecting this? I'm fairly sure I've lately seen Haskell programs consuming significantly larger amounts of memory than they should be allowed to, and I can try to isolate a test case if it is of interest. -k -- If I haven't seen further, it is by standing in the footprints of giants _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
