Hi Kurt, Am Dienstag, den 29.06.2010, 18:30 +0200 schrieb Kurt Roeckx: > On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 11:30:01AM +0200, Joachim Breitner wrote: > > Am Montag, den 28.06.2010, 23:26 +0200 schrieb Kurt Roeckx: > > > On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 08:36:18PM +0200, Joachim Breitner wrote: > > > > the Haskell team maintains (besides a lot of unproblematic) a handful of > > > > package that require a lot of resources (mostly RAM) when building. On > > > > some architectures, these packages can only be built by certain buildds, > > > > while they are failing on others. So far, I have observed buildd admins > > > > just repeatedly giving back packages in question until the "right" > > > > buildd machine picked it up. > > > > > > What I have noticed on hppa is that ghc is just taking 100% CPU > > > time all the time. Trying it on a different buildd is unlikely > > > to change the result, and setting the timeout higher is also > > > unlikely to be helping. All hppa buildds have 4 GB ram or more and > > > I've only seen ghc use like 250 MB. I have no idea what the problem > > > is, but just retrying clearly isn't helping. > > > > > > Not sure what the status is on other arches. > > > > We have identified and worked around one issue¹ and indeed, packages > > like haskell-src-exts and haskell-regex-tdfa now build at least on > > hppa. > > I still see issues with things like darcs.
and pandoc, yes. The fix is applied on a per-package basis (adding a flag to the compiler), and I first wanted to observe whether it actually helps. I’ll notify the darcs maintainer that he should consider applying the patch there as well. > > Other arches we now hit hard limits ("virtual memory exhausted" on > > s390, cc being killed which is usually an OOM sign). I hope there is no > > other principal problem (like the one we just worked around) left. > > > > ¹ When ghc grows large, fork() takes longer than the time between two > > timer interrupts, causing fork() to be restarted again and again. This > > is fixed in the next ghc release. Until then, it turned out that > > disabling the timer completely does actually work. > > I think I still see the timer going off on hppa. With what package? Sorry if I was unclear in the previous mails; the work-around has been applied to: * haskell-src-exts * haskell-regex-tdfa * washngo And it yet needs to be applied for to * pandoc * darcs * xmonad-contrib * agda Greetings, Joachim -- Joachim "nomeata" Breitner Debian Developer nome...@debian.org | ICQ# 74513189 | GPG-Keyid: 4743206C JID: nome...@joachim-breitner.de | http://people.debian.org/~nomeata
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