[Nix-dev] GHC "unable to decommit memory"

[Eelco Dolstra]

Hi,

On 09/01/2016 10:09 AM, Kevin Cox wrote:

> Sounds more like we need glibc to support the kernel we are using. GHC is
> behaving fine and probably not the only program to have this problem.

Glibc supports our kernel just fine - it just makes available some features that
our kernel doesn't have, which is not uncommon. I mean, what should Glibc do in
this case? The fix would be to build GHC with --disable-large-address-space or
apply patch https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/12495.

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