switch to compacting collection when swapping occurs
One avenue for tuning the GC to work better in low memory conditions is for it to auto-switch to compacting collection when swapping is happening. We can detect swapping using getrusage() on Unix systems. See:
http://www.haskell.org//pipermail/glasgow-haskell-users/2006-March/009863.html
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