Re: Bug#185010: marked as done (localedef uses lots and lots of memory)
On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 09:47:44AM +0900, GOTO Masanori wrote:
> At Sun, 16 Mar 2003 19:41:19 -0500,
> Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> >
> > 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.
>
> Read my post.
>
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=185010
I strongly disagree with your position in that bug report. Especially:
> Unless you have a particularly good justification (in which case
> why didn't you give it in the first place?) I'm going to reopen
> this bug...
Don't do that. If you reopen, you have to send a patch to improve.
That's not a legitimate reason to close a bug. It's a real problem,
even if low priority.
Reducing the number of bugs doesn't get you any brownie points. Please
don't close bugs without reason. I have several systems (on my desk,
at least four) with inadequate RAM to run the current localedef, and it
causes me problems; this issue is on my list to investigate.
I've reopened it. Please don't close it unless you intend to fix it
first.
--
Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer
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