I'm getting three or four validate failures on 64-bit Linux (openSuSE 12.3): Unexpected failures: perf/compiler T3064 [stat not good enough] (normal) perf/compiler T6048 [stat not good enough] (optasm) simplCore/should_compile simpl015 [exit code non-0] (optasm) th T8333 [bad stdout] (normal) The perf tests allocate about 2% more than they are allowed to.

bytes allocated value is too high: Expected bytes allocated: 308422280 +/-5% Lower bound bytes allocated: 293001166 Upper bound bytes allocated: 323843394 Actual bytes allocated: 329638208 *** unexpected failure for T3064(normal)

bytes allocated value is too high: Expected bytes allocated: 110646312 +/-10% Lower bound bytes allocated: 99581680 Upper bound bytes allocated: 121710944 Actual bytes allocated: 123103232 *** unexpected failure for T6048(optasm)

The T8333 failure is due to it reading my .ghci file, thus getting additional output. Is there a way to automatically check that all tests that use the "--interactive" flag also use "-ignore-dot-ghci" like the ghci tests do, or must one wait for validate failures due to that and add it then? Finally, simpl015 is a test that does only sometimes fail. It uses on my box an estimated 2GB of memory, and when I haven't anything else memory-hungry running, it passes, but when I have (as I do by default) SeaMonkey running (with tons of open tabs), my box quasi-freezes, the test times out, and the browser is OOM-killed. I am not happy with that behaviour. And looking at what the test is, I am somewhat irritated that it uses so much memory. Cheers, Daniel