[GHC] #778: memory leak

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#778: memory leak
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  Reporter:  guest     |          Owner:         
      Type:  bug       |         Status:  new    
  Priority:  normal    |      Milestone:  6.4.2  
 Component:  Compiler  |        Version:  6.4.2  
  Severity:  normal    |       Keywords:  memory 
Difficulty:  Unknown   |   Architecture:  Unknown
        Os:  Linux     |  
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I have the same program using both ghci and ghc.  ghci gives:

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 ghc-6.4.2: out of memory (requested 1048576 bytes)

 and ghc gives:
 ghc -ignore-package Cabal --make -Wall -fno-warn-unused-matches -cpp -i.
 -odir dist/tmp -hidir dist/tmp Setup.lhs -o setup
 ghc-6.4.2: out of memory (requested 1048576 bytes)

 I have 2 gigs of ram, and 3 of swap.  When I run ghci, my free memory
 quickly drops from ~1.9 Gb to less than 10 Mb, at which point, I get the
 out of memory error.
 I'm running gentoo on my laptop, with gcc 4.1.1 and kernel 2.6.17-rc1-mm2

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