Re: parallel garbage collection performance

Thanks very much for this information. My observations match your recommendations, insofar as I can test them. Cheers, John On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 11:42 PM, Simon Marlow wrote: > On 19/06/12 02:32, John Lato wrote: >> >> Thanks for the suggestions.  I'll try them and report back.  Although >>

Re: parallel garbage collection performance

> > However, the parallel GC will be a problem if one or more of your cores is > being used by other process(es) on the machine. In that case, the GC > synchronisation will stall and performance will go down the drain. You can > often see this on a ThreadScope profile as a big delay during GC whi

Re: Cannot build user's guide

On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 02:34:34PM +0100, José Pedro Magalhães wrote: > > (Btw, validate goes through. Does validate not build the user's guide?) It only builds it if the tools are available. I think that's mainly because they're a bit fiddly to install on Windows. Thanks Ian

Re: parallel garbage collection performance

On 19/06/12 02:32, John Lato wrote: Thanks for the suggestions. I'll try them and report back. Although I've since found that out of 3 not-identical systems, this problem only occurs on one. So I may try different kernel/system libs and see where that gets me. -qg is funny. My interpretation

Re: Cannot build user's guide

On 25/06/12 14:34, José Pedro Magalhães wrote: Hi, I cannot build the user's guide. Doing make html stage=0 FAST=YES under docs/users_guide, I get: ===--- building final phase make -r --no-print-directory -f ghc.mk phase=final html_docs/users_guide inplace/bin/mkUserGuidePart do

Cannot build user's guide

Hi, I cannot build the user's guide. Doing make html stage=0 FAST=YES under docs/users_guide, I get: ===--- building final phase make -r --no-print-directory -f ghc.mk phase=final html_docs/users_guide inplace/bin/mkUserGuidePart docs/users_guide/users_guide.xml inplace/bin/mkUserGuidePart docs/u