Bug#329743: uses too much memory

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Joey Hess a écrit :

Package: cdebconf
Severity: normal

In d-i in a lowmem mode install (no translations), cdebconf uses 5 mb of
ram. With partman running the next largest memory usage, by
parted_server is only 1 mb (numbers for mipsel arch). This is largely
because it keeps all the question and template info in memory, which is
very wasteful.

there are some problems in lowmem:
 - there is no trimtemplates on /var/lib/cdebconf/templates.dat

 - unable to boot netboot with 24Mb because initrd is too big

i'm testing new features:




sylvain

- trimtemplates do not remove extended-descriptions and indices (i'm working on it) - add udpkg --remove option to remove old configured packages during installation steps. So it's a sort of installation 'in one shot', you can not go back to change the language for example. - i create two directories in main-menu: main-menu-pre.d and main-menu-post.d. And you can put scripts executed before and/or after a menu is configured. i think it will be useful for lowmem. this avoid to create lots of lowmem micro udebs between two menus.

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