[Haskell-cafe] ghc leaking memory?

[Don Stewart]

Sounds like the known issue of ghc --make (the compilation manager)
retaining meta data (like .hi file info) when compiling many modules.
This isn't the case with one-shot compiltation.

I'm not sure there's anything you can do about it. 

aslatter:
> Including ghc-users.
> 
> On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 11:57 AM, Joachim Breitner <nomeata at debian.org> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > in Debian, we are having some problems building large libraries (such as
> > agda, highlighting-kate, xmonad-contrib) on weaker architectures (sparc,
> > armel, s390) which compile with -fvia-C, especially when building the
> > profiling libraries.