Bug#516128: aptitude: Using german localisation causes huge memory usage

Package: aptitude Version: 0.4.11.11-1~lenny1 Followup-For: Bug #516128 Hi, I got exactly the same problem. Running 'aptitude' (or e.g. 'aptitude show') and 'apt-cache show/policy' consumes almost all memory including RAM and swap with locales set to de_DE.UTF-8. The problem can be solved by

Bug#516128: aptitude: Using german localisation causes huge memory usage

Package: aptitude Version: 0.4.11.11-1 Severity: normal Hi, setting LC_ALL=de_DE.utf8 LANG=de_DE.utf8 before starting aptitude as non-root user causes aptitude tu use about 1 GB oder RAM. If the user is root, no such effect occurs. Unsetting the variables also leeds to a normal memory