Bug#593849: gconf2: gconftool-2 uses up all my ram during package upgrades

2010-08-21 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le samedi 21 août 2010 à 15:32 -0400, Andres Salomon a écrit : > Is this one massive chunk of xml, or could it be processed piecemeal? > (If the former.. aiee!) There are ~ 40 MiB of schema files to be processed in a typical GNOME installation. Each of them can contains keys that can be spread any

Bug#593849: gconf2: gconftool-2 uses up all my ram during package upgrades

2010-08-21 Thread Andres Salomon
On Sat, 21 Aug 2010 19:20:07 +0200 Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le samedi 21 août 2010 à 11:24 -0400, Andres Salomon a écrit : > > Watching gconftool-2 in top during the dist-upgrade shows it using > > at least 100MB before completion.. > > If you know of a way to deal with 50 MB of XML code using

Bug#593849: gconf2: gconftool-2 uses up all my ram during package upgrades

2010-08-21 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le samedi 21 août 2010 à 11:24 -0400, Andres Salomon a écrit : > Watching gconftool-2 in top during the dist-upgrade shows it using > at least 100MB before completion.. If you know of a way to deal with 50 MB of XML code using DOM without needing 100 MB of RAM, I’m interested. There’s not much we

Bug#593849: gconf2: gconftool-2 uses up all my ram during package upgrades

2010-08-21 Thread Andres Salomon
Package: gconf2 Version: 2.28.1-3 Severity: normal During upgrades of various packages in squeeze, gconftool-2 gets called from maintainer scripts. During these calls, gconftool-2 uses an amazing amount of memory; over 100MB. When doing this on an XO-1 (which has 256MB of physical RAM), it ends