Re: testing is broken
On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 02:49:06PM +0000, Paul Martin wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 06:17:35PM -0600, Scott Dier wrote:
> > * Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> [010322 12:43]:
> > > On Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 10:37:59AM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote:
> > > > Isn't it getting to be time to drop dselect from the distribution?
> > > Not until there's a replacement. apt is *not*, before you suggest it.
> >
> > If someone comes out with a deity front-end that exactly matches its
> > wacked-out UI, I wouldn't mind. I *like* dselect. :)
>
> The root problem with dselect (and dpkg for that matter) is the amount
> of data it reads into core. In dselect's case, the data occurs twice in
> memory: once in the dpkg phase, and then it translates it into C++
> dynamic allocations. When you exit the "Select" phase of dselect, back
> to the menu, the memory used is returned to the C heap, but the
> process's memory footprint does not decrease.
If that's true, then it's sloppy, but it doesn't matter. If the
memory isn't being used, it might as well not be there: it will be
swapped out anyhow.
Jules
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