Bug#138692: apt-get uses an enormous amount of memory for simple functions

[Ari Pollak <compwiz@aripollak.com>]

Package: apt
Version: 0.5.4
Severity: normal

When I do an 'apt-get source libgtk1.2', the apt-get process seems to 
use 100+ MB of RAM until the extraction is over. Consequently, this 
slows my system down a lot. Here is a line from ps aux when apt-get
source is running:

compwiz  12696  2.8 39.1 104416 100644 pts/8 S    23:16   0:00 apt-get source li
compwiz  12728  0.0 39.1 104416 100648 pts/8 S    23:17   0:00 apt-get source li



-- System Information
Debian Release: 3.0
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux darth 2.4.19-pre3 #1 Tue Mar 12 20:38:26 EST 2002 i686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=

Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii  libc6                         2.2.5-3    GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2        1:2.95.4-4 The GNU stdc++ library