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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 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, > > ----------------- > Serge Mechveliani > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > _______________________________________________ > Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list > Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users > _______________________________________________ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users