Package: dselect Version: 1.13.22 Severity: normal
"dselect select" seems to take about 48 MB while displaying the packages, this causes a small-memory system (32MB) to go heavily into swap. A quick run with valgrind --tool=massif reveals that about 15MB are allocated by 'newpad'. Apparently dselect creates a 20000-line ncursed pad to hold the package list. Since the same information is also present as part of the in-memory package database, it might be possible to save the memory by generating a smaller pad for just the part of the list that's being shown at any given time. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (50, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.4.33 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) Versions of packages dselect depends on: ii dpkg 1.13.22 package maintenance system for Deb ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-4 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libgcc1 1:4.1.1-13 GCC support library ii libncurses5 5.5-3 Shared libraries for terminal hand ii libstdc++6 4.1.1-13 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 dselect recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
