[GHC] #2716: ghci uses an enormous amount of memory (recent 6.10 snapshots)

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#2716: ghci uses an enormous amount of memory (recent 6.10 snapshots)
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 Reporter:  ravi      |          Owner:                
     Type:  bug       |         Status:  new           
 Priority:  normal    |      Milestone:                
Component:  GHCi      |        Version:  6.10.1        
 Severity:  critical  |     Resolution:                
 Keywords:            |     Difficulty:  Unknown       
 Testcase:            |   Architecture:  x86_64 (amd64)
       Os:  Linux     |  
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Comment (by duncan):

 We have seen this kind behaviour before with older ghc releases.
 Superficially it looks similar to this report: #778 or
 http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=135651 That time it was caused by a
 newer gcc mis-compiling some part of the RTS.

 Ravi: could you get an strace log of starting ghci and attach it to this
 ticket. Could you also attach the output of `emerge --info`. That would
 help us, thanks.

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