Ok,

$ cat >null.hs
module Main(main) where
main = return ()

$ ghc null.hs -o null
$ ./null +RTS -?
$

Cheers,

-----Original Message-----
From: Simon Marlow [mailto:simonmar@microsoft.com]
Sent: Friday, 20 December 2002 20:53
To: Garner, Robin; glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org
Subject: RE: Run-time options in ghc on Linux

> The +RTS options don't seem to be working for me on Linux
> (Redhat 7.2, ghc 5.04 and 5.04.1 installed via the .rpms). 
>
> One of my programs will happily consume all available memory,
> even though I have +RTS -M64M, and another program fails with
>
> Stack space overflow: current size 1048576 bytes.
> Use `+RTS -Ksize' to increase it.
>
> even though I'm using +RTS -K10M.

Well, it works here...  if you say "+RTS -?" does it print the help
text?  Could you post the exact command lines you're using to
compile/link the program, and the command line used to run it?

Cheers,
        Simon