25 Nov
2010
25 Nov
'10
9:29 a.m.
"Edward Z. Yang"
Arguably the correct thing to do is to use GHC's hooks for programatically specifying runtime options; unfortunately, because this has to run /before/ any Haskell code starts, it's a bit unwieldly
Maybe what's needed is a way to allow certain RTS options to trickle through? For example, I'd like to be able to change +RTS -Nx to just '-c x', or similar. Anyway, you can also use OS limits on processes (ulimit -a in bash) that can run away with all your memory. And if it actually freezes your machine (as opposed to making it go really slowly), that's a kernel bug. -k -- If I haven't seen further, it is by standing in the footprints of giants