[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:  closed        
 Priority:  high      |      Milestone:  6.10.1        
Component:  GHCi      |        Version:  6.10.1        
 Severity:  critical  |     Resolution:  invalid       
 Keywords:            |     Difficulty:  Unknown       
 Testcase:            |   Architecture:  x86_64 (amd64)
       Os:  Linux     |  
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Changes (by ravi):

  * status:  new => closed
  * resolution:  => invalid

Comment:

 From looking at source, the Gentoo libedit version I was using (dev-
 libs/libedit-20050930) appears to have the bug. I upgraded to Gentoo's
 dev-libs/libedit-20061103-r2, but it has the same problem. Applying the
 referenced patch solved the issue.

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Ticket URL: <http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/2716#comment:5>
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