Please excuse the grammar errors in my last post. I was very tired. The name of the package that supplies the free function on Linux is procps, not procpc. It's hosted on SourceForge. To compile my program, do the following:
$ mv memfree.txt memfree.l $ make LDLIBS=-ll memfree John On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 11:36 PM, John D. Ramsdell <ramsde...@gmail.com> wrote: > I found out how to compute a good memory limit for the GHC runtime on > Linux systems. One opens /proc/meminfo, and sums the free memory with > the reclaimable memory. The memory allocated to file buffers and the > disk cache are reclaimable, and can be added to the memory of a > growing GHC process. Once you get beyond that memory size, thrashing > is in your futures. > > I have enclosed a short lex program that computes the limit. It's > basically what is done by the procpc program called free, except that > I printed only the number of interest to a GHC runtime. > > John > _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
