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, > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
