Scary Windows issues

[Simon Marlow]

Simon Marlow wrote:
> On 01 September 2006 01:00, Esa Ilari Vuokko wrote:
> 
> 
>>That leaves me with no unexplained (concurrency/) failures.  I've now
>>run the tests conc007, conc012 and conc030 lots of times, trying to
>>get diffrent conditions, but they just won't fail on my machines (one
>>dual core, one HT).
> 
> 
> These also are failing for me with the MEM_COMMIT error in my latest
> run:
> 
>    memo001(opt,optasm,threaded2)
>    ioref001(normal,threaded2)
>    list003(opt,optasm,threaded2)
> 
> and probably more.

BTW, many of the tests I see failing have something in common: they have +RTS 
-Ksomething, which means they probably allocate a multi-megabyte block in one 
go.  See also stableptr004, for example.

Cheers,
	Simon