New space leak?

[Simon Marlow]

That would help, but since this regression is quite recent I'm hoping 
that someone will know what caused it.  Did anyone notice when these 
failures first appeared?  It is certainly not the patches I'm working 
on, because I see the same failures on two separate machines.

Cheers,
Simon

On 01/10/13 11:05, Simon Peyton-Jones wrote:
> It would be very helpful if someone felt able to do some space profiles
> of GHC itself, using 7.4, 7.6 and the new HEAD, to see whether residency
> (the amount of head in use at any moment) has increased. And if so, why.
>
> Any takers?
>
> Simon
>
> *From:*ghc-devs [mailto:ghc-devs-bounces at haskell.org] *On Behalf Of
> *Simon Marlow
> *Sent:* 01 October 2013 10:01
> *To:* ghc-devs at haskell.org
> *Subject:* New space leak?
>
> My validate has a few perf failures (below).  Now I know that sampling
> heap size is inaccurate, but the evidence here is pretty strong. Also
> validate fell over completely in my 2GB VM when Haddock ran out of
> memory, I had to give it more memory to complete. Something has got
> worse recently - this wasn't happening a couple of weeks ago.
>
> Does anyone have any idea what might have caused this?  Going back in
> time is difficult.  Are these failures happening for other people?
>
> Let me suggest something that might help with these perf tests: running
> the program with +RTS -h -i0.01 will give a more accurate indication of
> peak residency, by running major GCs much more often.  Also you get a
> heap profile.
>
> Cheers,
> Simon
>
>
> =====> haddock.base(normal) 2474 of 3806 [0, 1, 0]
> max_bytes_used value is too high:
>      Expected    max_bytes_used:  96022312 +/-10%
>      Lower bound max_bytes_used:  86420080
>      Upper bound max_bytes_used: 105624544
>      Actual      max_bytes_used: 113537216
> peak_megabytes_allocated value is too high:
>      Expected    peak_megabytes_allocated: 274 +/-10%
>      Lower bound peak_megabytes_allocated: 246
>      Upper bound peak_megabytes_allocated: 302
>      Actual      peak_megabytes_allocated: 323
> *** unexpected failure for haddock.base(normal)
> =====> haddock.Cabal(normal) 2475 of 3806 [0, 2, 0]
> =====> haddock.compiler(normal) 2476 of 3806 [0, 2, 0]
> peak_megabytes_allocated value is too high:
>      Expected    peak_megabytes_allocated: 1250 +/-10%
>      Lower bound peak_megabytes_allocated: 1125
>      Upper bound peak_megabytes_allocated: 1375
>      Actual      peak_megabytes_allocated: 1397
> bytes allocated value is too high:
>      Expected    bytes allocated: 25990254632 +/-10%
>      Lower bound bytes allocated: 23391229168
>      Upper bound bytes allocated: 28589280096
>      Actual      bytes allocated: 28680445952
> *** unexpected failure for haddock.compiler(normal)
> =====> T3064(normal) 2480 of 3806 [0, 3, 0]
> cd ./perf/compiler && '/home/smarlow/ghc/bindisttest/install
> dir/bin/ghc' -fforce-recomp -dno-debug-output -no-user-package-db
> -rtsopts -fno-ghci-history -c T3064.hs   +RTS -V0 -tT3064.comp.stats
> --machine-readable -RTS  >T3064.comp.stderr 2>&1
> max_bytes_used value is too high:
>      Expected    max_bytes_used: 12000480 +/-20%
>      Lower bound max_bytes_used:  9600384
>      Upper bound max_bytes_used: 14400576
>      Actual      max_bytes_used: 15258696
> peak_megabytes_allocated value is too high:
>      Expected    peak_megabytes_allocated: 30 +/-20%
>      Lower bound peak_megabytes_allocated: 24
>      Upper bound peak_megabytes_allocated: 36
>      Actual      peak_megabytes_allocated: 37
> *** unexpected failure for T3064(normal)
>