#13586: ghc --make seems to leak memory -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Reporter: MikolajKonarski | Owner: (none) Type: bug | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: Compiler | Version: 8.0.1 Resolution: | Keywords: Operating System: Linux | Architecture: x86_64 Type of failure: Compile-time | (amd64) performance bug | Test Case: Blocked By: | Blocking: Related Tickets: #13379 | Differential Rev(s): Wiki Page: | -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Comment (by jstolarek): MikoĊaj, does that problem happen with earlier versions of GHC? Or: to what extent does this happen with earlier versions? I have run into the same problem on my old laptop with 2GB of RAM. With larger projects I often had to kill the build because the system ran out of memory, but then restarting the build lead to successful completion. One symptom I also experienced was a very long linking time, something that did not happen with GHC 7.10 or 7.8. I speculate that the cause might have been due to cluttering the memory with unnecessary data left from compilation and then running the linker lead to swapping. Again, restarting the build to just finish linking would solve the problem, ie. linking finishing in reasonable time. -- Ticket URL: http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/13586#comment:1 GHC http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ The Glasgow Haskell Compiler