Yes, the problem is a space leak in Haddock. On a 32 bit system it
takes up to 700MB of RAM. You should probably disable haddock for
now. David Waern is working on a fix, but I don't know how long it'll
take him.
2008/10/9 Serge D. Mechveliani
Another point in testing ghc-6.10.0.20081007:
I make it from source on Debian Linux. On 1 Gb - 2 GHz machine, it builds in 1400 sec. On 512 Mb machine, it seems to overfill RAM, it becomes slow, and this `make' creates difficulties for other processes (like emacs editor): they start to hang, a bit, and the `top' command shows 85% RAM used by this `make', now and then (and probably it takes more, sometimes).
This effect is in making ghc-6.10.0.20081007 from source by ghc-6.10.0.20080921 on Debian Linux, on 512 Mb RAM i386-like machine.
This was not so in earlier GHC versions. Can this be improved? Because 512 Mb is much enough.
The last messages (after which I interruptred it) is ------------------------ make -C compiler doc stage=2 make[2]: Entering directory `/home/mechvel/ghc/6.10.1cand/ghc-6.10.0.20081007/compiler' /home/mechvel/ghc/6.10.1cand/ghc-6.10.0.20081007/libraries/cabal-bin /home/mechvel/ghc/6.10cand/inst0/bin/ghc /home/mechvel/ghc/6.10.1cand/ghc-6.10.0.20081007/ libraries/bootstrapping.conf haddock --distpref dist-stage2 --haddock-option=--optghc=-DSTAGE=2 --with-haddock=/home/mechvel/ghc/6.10.1cand/ghc-6.10.0.20081007/ utils/haddock/install-inplace/bin/haddock Preprocessing library ghc-6.10.0.20081007... Running Haddock for ghc-6.10.0.20081007... Warning: The documentation for the following packages are not installed. No links will be generated to these packages: rts-1.0 Preprocessing library ghc-6.10.0.20081007... make[2]: *** [doc.stage.2] .. make[1]: *** [stage2] Interruption make: *** [bootstrap2] Interruption ----------------------------------------------
Regards,
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