id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	milestone	component	version	resolution	keywords	cc	os	architecture	failure	difficulty	testcase	blockedby	blocking	related
1840	Reduce strain on PPC Mac OS X swapspace when test case outofmem2 fails	thorkilnaur		"The outofmem2 test verifies that the runtime system reacts suitably to a request to allocate an amount of memory that exceeds the available heap space. See trac ticket #1791 for additional details.

As a practical matter, when outofmem2 fails on my PPC Mac, it does so by succeeding to allocate about 1 Gbyte of memory. This causes a similar amount of additional disk space worth of swapfiles to be created. And this strains the capacity of my somewhat modest equipment.

The attached patch supplies a suggested remedy for this, by simply reducing the amount ofmemory that outofmem2.hs attempts to allocate. It would be very useful for me to have this patch (or any other cure of the problem) also merged to the current stable where the problem occurs routinely.

Best regards
Thorkil"	bug	closed	normal	6.8.2	Test Suite	6.8.1	fixed			Unknown/Multiple	Unknown/Multiple		Unknown	outofmem2