Re: Bug#185010: marked as done (localedef uses lots and lots of memory)
On Sun, Mar 16, 2003 at 05:48:12PM -0600, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote:
> At Sun, 16 Mar 2003 14:10:16 +0000,
> pmaydell@chiark.greenend.org.uk wrote:
> >
> > Package: libc6
> > Version: 2.2.5-11.2
> >
> > The localedef utility (as run by locale-gen) uses an extremely large amount
> > of memory. This means it takes a very long time to run on machines without
> > very much RAM (48MB in this case), and my SPARCstation actually ran totally
> > out of memory so localedef was killed by the OOM-killer before it could
> > finish...
> >
> > Here's a ps snapshot:
> > USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND
> > root 18243 6.9 34.5 41852 13992 pts/7 D 13:41 0:39 localedef -i en_GB -c -f UTF-8 en_GB.UTF-8
> >
> > Note the ludicrous VSZ.
> >
> > (I dunno, maybe this should be wishlist, but since it's actually bad
> > enough that I can't add extra locales on this SPARC box I'll leave it
> > at normal severity.)
>
> So add more memory or add swap or reduce processes consuming memory.
Huh? That's got to be the lamest bug-closing message I've seen in
years. All the world is not a PC. Adding memory is not the answer.
Localedef is a ridiculous CPU/memory hog; it should and probably can be
fixed.
--
Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer
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