occasional segmentation faults when using Control.Parallel
The attached program fails quite often with segmentation faults or internal errors (unpredictably, in consecutive runs, without changing the source):
% time ./parallel +RTS -N2
zsh: segmentation fault (core dumped) ./parallel +RTS -N2
./parallel +RTS -N2 2.79s user 0.42s system 107% cpu 2.988 total
% time ./parallel +RTS -N2
parallel: internal error: evacuate: strange closure type 65284
(GHC version 6.8.2 for i386_unknown_linux)
Please report this as a GHC bug: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/reportabug
zsh: abort (core dumped) ./parallel +RTS -N2
./parallel +RTS -N2 3.60s user 0.51s system 108% cpu 3.781 total
% time ./parallel +RTS -N2
zsh: segmentation fault (core dumped) ./parallel +RTS -N2
./parallel +RTS -N2 5.09s user 0.46s system 111% cpu 4.982 total
% time ./parallel +RTS -N2
500000
./parallel +RTS -N2 8.34s user 0.14s system 108% cpu 7.796 total
The program can fail both when it is compiled with and without -O2. Changing the value of maxSparks makes a difference (with value 2 it is finishing successfully always (or probably more often)).
Trac metadata
Trac field | Value |
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Version | 6.8.2 |
Type | Bug |
TypeOfFailure | OtherFailure |
Priority | normal |
Resolution | Unresolved |
Component | Compiler |
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