-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Jul 24, 2006 at 11:52:03AM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > D-I memory usage > ================ > One of the main issues with this release is increased memory usage. For > some arches this is proving critical as e.g. 32 or 64 MB boundaries are > crossed. Problems have already been seen on arm and m68k. > When compared with the Sarge release, there are three main causes: > - integration of base-config into first stage (extra udebs use extra > memory) > - added crypto support in partman (partman-crypto pulls in ~2.5 MB in > dependencies; new for Beta 3) > After Beta 3 a change is planned for partman-crypto so it will not pull > in all its dependencies until it is actually used. > - added languages: the templates.dat file has doubled in size and > on top of that cdebconf loads the whole file into memory, so the > increase hits double (blame bubulle and his endless quest for new > languages to support ;-) This is the main culprit. > We really need a technical solution to reduce current memory usage and > the impact of adding translations, but that will probably be post-Etch.
Because an idea triggers more ideas: Make a reverse version of removing unwanted po-files from installed packages as in the days of small disks. So separate executable and po-files during udeb build and retrieve the po data for the wanted language. Cheers Geert Stappers -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFExfLLOSINbgwa/7sRAkyEAKCEIfPh0dHdEMmxFbq9dxFTUpWpxgCePLwl E2eJAw85a5FrXy07Pm/E8fc= =jWQT -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
