Bug#776658: lintian: Memory consumption of harness and html_reports

[Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>]

On 2015-02-02 22:13, Niels Thykier wrote:
> I got a patch series to implement this (see also [BRANCH]). I have
> also managed to do a few tests on lilburn.debian.org with no issues.
> The commit messages are at the bare minimum - apologise for that.
> Review/remarks welcome.
> 
> With the rewrite:
> 
>  * harness now uses ~16MB (rather than 700ish MB).

This was possibly a bit too short.  The slightly longer version:

 * The primary harness process only uses ~16MB.
 * The sub-process running Lintian ends up using ~450MB.  So the
   lintian run now have ~250MB extra memory free.
 * The html_reports tree will have ~700MB extra memory.

~Niels