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Print a user-friendly error message when ghc is killed #2813

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radix opened this issue Sep 8, 2015 · 0 comments
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Print a user-friendly error message when ghc is killed #2813

radix opened this issue Sep 8, 2015 · 0 comments
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re: error-message Concerning error messages delivered to the user type: enhancement

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radix commented Sep 8, 2015

It seems quite common that when GHC stops with SIGKILL (exit code -9), it's because the process was killed by an OOM killer. It would be nice if Cabal could print a helpful message describing that GHC was killed by a signal, and that it's likely to be because of a lack of memory.
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