ANNOUNCE: GHC 6.10.1 RC 1

[Lennart Kolmodin]

Anatoly Yakovenko wrote:
> I am using the gentoo package for 6.10.1 and when i start ghci it
> tries to allocate over 1gb of memory, which hits my ulimit.
> 
> Is anyone else getting absurd memory usage when trying to start ghci?
> $ ghci
> GHCi, version 6.10.0.20081007: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/  :? for help
> Loading package ghc-prim ... linking ... done.
> Loading package integer ... linking ... done.
> Loading package base ... linking ... done.
> ghc: out of memory (requested 1048576 bytes

Likely the same bug we've seen before with libedit, or related;
GHC bug reported at http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/2716 
(closed as invalid as the problem isn't with GHC)
Gentoo bug report at http://bugs.gentoo.org/237882 to fix gentoo's libedit.

You can try to apply the patch in the gentoo bug locally and see if that 
resolves the issue.

Cheers,
   Lennart K