[Haskell-cafe] Re: GHCi Memory Leak in Windows Vista

[Duncan Coutts]

On Tue, 2009-01-20 at 10:22 +0000, Gracjan Polak wrote:
> Same here:
> 
> Vista, GHC 6.8.3
> 
> Tested a bit changed scenario: instead of 20 separate compilations it is
> worthwhile to run single, longer build, e.g. ghc --make of same package.
> 
> Seems like GHCi does not run garbage collection when machine is busy. And then
> it accumulates memory. This renders Vista totally unresponsive and even can lead
> to automatic reboot (happened once to me).

Did either of you file a ghc ticket about this issue?

Does the same happen with 6.10 ?

Duncan