out of memory when running haddock

[Simon Marlow]

David Waern wrote:
> 2008/10/9 David Waern <david.waern at gmail.com>:
>> I've now managed to reduce memory usage from 1000 M to 350 M at its
>> peak when processing the ghc package, by interleaving typechecking
>> with interface creation. I use pretty printing to fully evaluate the
>> Interface structure at each round.
> 
> Getting memory usage down further seems hard since the GHC API --make
> mode alone (when simply discarding typechecking output) peaks at 300 M
> of memory usage when processing ghc.

Right, I expect you're at the limit there.  We hope to do another round of 
profiling of GHC during the next release cycle, so hopefully we'll be able 
to get that 300M down, and Haddock should benefit.

Cheers,
	Simon