Re: Trouble with ghc on linux x86_64

Bit Connor wrote:

On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 5:36 AM, Simon Marlow wrote:

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Compiling and running executables should work fine, only GHCi is affected by the above bug. Could you try -v when linking and see what stage is hanging?

Here is an example with a standard cabal Setup.lhs file. It outputs the following and then hangs. When I look at "top" then there is an "ld" process taking up almost zero cpu, but hundreds of MB of memory.

Since it seems to be hanging in the linker, and this is a Xen instance, perhaps you're running out of memory and swapping? BTW, I've checked in a potential fix for the mmap() problem you reported earlier, see http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/2063 Cheers, Simon