id,summary,reporter,owner,description,type,status,priority,milestone,component,version,resolution,keywords,cc,os,architecture,failure,difficulty,testcase,blockedby,blocking,related
1209,getMBlocks: misaligned block returned,CBa,simonmar,"darcs 1.0.8 uses a lot of memory. On windows the command below
(official compiled darcs, I'm not sure about ghc version) works
on one Machine (Windows Server 2003) and aborts on Windows XP
with the message below:

{{{
darcs +RTS -M1750M -RTS optimize --reorder-patches

darcs.exe: getMBlocks: VirtualAlloc failed with: 8 

darcs.exe: internal error: getMBlocks: misaligned block returned

   Please report this as a bug to glasgow-haskell-bugs@haskell.org,

   or http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/ghc/

Version: (Windows XP)

darcs compiled on Jun 16 2006, at 13:00:32

# configured Fri Jun 16 12:59:52 USMST 2006

./configure --disable-mmap

Context:

[TAG 1.0.8

Tommy Pettersson <ptp@lysator.liu.se>**20060616160213]
}}}

--  
Christoph Bauer",bug,closed,normal,6.8.1,Runtime System,6.4.2,fixed,"darcs, windows, memory, VirtualAlloc",lennart.augustsson@…,Windows,x86,,Unknown,,,,