RE: [Haskell-cafe] +RTS -M800M

2005-12-20 Thread Simon Marlow
On 17 December 2005 21:57, Ketil Malde wrote: > "Simon Marlow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> On 16 December 2005 10:05, Joel Reymont wrote: >> >>> I'm trying to restrict GHC to 800Mb of heap at runtime by passing in >>> +RTS -M800M, the machine has 1Gb of memory and top shows free >>> physica

RE: [Haskell-cafe] +RTS -M800M

2005-12-19 Thread Simon Peyton-Jones
| Is there any chance there is a bug in recent GHCs (or perhaps Linux?) | affecting this? I'm fairly sure I've lately seen Haskell programs | consuming significantly larger amounts of memory than they should be | allowed to, and I can try to isolate a test case if it is of | interest. New bugs a

Re: [Haskell-cafe] +RTS -M800M

2005-12-17 Thread Tomasz Zielonka
On Sat, Dec 17, 2005 at 10:56:58PM +0100, Ketil Malde wrote: > Is there any chance there is a bug in recent GHCs (or perhaps Linux?) > affecting this? I'm fairly sure I've lately seen Haskell programs > consuming significantly larger amounts of memory than they should be > allowed to, and I can tr

Re: [Haskell-cafe] +RTS -M800M

2005-12-17 Thread Ketil Malde
"Simon Marlow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 16 December 2005 10:05, Joel Reymont wrote: > >> I'm trying to restrict GHC to 800Mb of heap at runtime by passing in >> +RTS -M800M, the machine has 1Gb of memory and top shows free >> physical memory dropping below 175Mb. > -M800m should do more o

RE: [Haskell-cafe] +RTS -M800M

2005-12-16 Thread Simon Marlow
On 16 December 2005 10:05, Joel Reymont wrote: > I'm trying to restrict GHC to 800Mb of heap at runtime by passing in > +RTS -M800M, the machine has 1Gb of memory and top shows free > physical memory dropping below 175Mb. I suppose I'm missing something > obvious or paying attention to the wrong s

[Haskell-cafe] +RTS -M800M

2005-12-16 Thread Joel Reymont
Folks, I'm trying to restrict GHC to 800Mb of heap at runtime by passing in +RTS -M800M, the machine has 1Gb of memory and top shows free physical memory dropping below 175Mb. I suppose I'm missing something obvious or paying attention to the wrong statistics, Unix has a good VM manager a