[Haskell-cafe] Possible GC bug

[Anish Muttreja]

Hi,
I have a program  that seems to run into occasional garbage
collection-related core dumps. The problem typically only occurs after the
program has been running for a while and is consuming a large amount of
memory (5 - 16GB). The large memory consumption is expected because the
program analyzes very large traces from verilog simulation and needs to
maintain IntMaps with hundreds of thousands of entries.

Is this a bug that I should report?I am afraid that my employer will not
allow me to share my source code.  I do have a stack trace, below.
This was obtained using ghc 6.10.1, RTS -N2  on an RHEL 4 machine.

Is there something I can do trace the problem or avoid it?

Thanks.
PS: This is my first Haskell program and one of the most complicated I ever
wrote, in any language. Using Haskell has been (mostly :-)) a joy.

(gdb) where
#0  0x0000000000612f40 in slowIsHeapAlloced ()
#1  0x000000000060f868 in evacuate ()
#2  0x0000000000618d12 in scavenge_block ()
#3  0x0000000000617c8d in scavenge_loop ()
#4  0x0000000000610b25 in scavenge_until_all_done ()
#5  0x0000000000610d02 in gc_thread_entry ()
#6  0x000000000064859d in start_thread (arg=<value optimized out>)
    at pthread_create.c:297
#7  0x000000000069e739 in clone ()
#8  0x0000000000000000 in ?? ()


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