[Haskell-cafe] Long running Haskell program

Paolino paolo.veronelli at gmail.com
Wed Nov 11 13:37:55 EST 2009


Hello  leimy, the only simple solution I have found to avoid  a leaking
state of a server is doing a periodical rnf of it, this implying the NFData
constraint on its datatype.
The reader should leak only if you nest forever the "local" function.

paolino



2009/11/11 David Leimbach <leimy2k at gmail.com>

> As some of you may know, I've been writing commercial Haskell code for a
> little bit here (about a year and a half) and I've just recently had to
> write some code that was going to run have to run for a really long time
> before being restarted, possibly months or years if all other parts of the
> system cooperate as it's part of a server infrastructure management system.
>
> I recently ran into some serious space leak difficulties that would
> ultimately cause this program to crash some time after startup (my simulator
> is also written in Haskell, and runs a LOT faster than the real application
> ever could, this has enabled me to fast forward a bit the data growth issues
> and crash in minutes instead of days!)
>
> Anyway, rather than try to paste it all here with images and such I thought
> I'd stick it up on my blog so others could maybe benefit from the anecdote.
>  It's difficult to disclose enough useful information as it is commercial
> code not under an open source license, but there's neat diagrams and stuff
> there so hopefully the colors are at least amusing :-)
>
> http://leimy9.blogspot.com/2009/11/long-running-haskell-applications.html
>
> Dave
>
>
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