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Re: localedef during tests suddenly needs a lot of memory
- From: Joseph Myers <joseph at codesourcery dot com>
- To: Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat dot com>
- Cc: GNU C Library <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>, <libc-locales at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2017 16:29:33 +0000
- Subject: Re: localedef during tests suddenly needs a lot of memory
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On Thu, 17 Aug 2017, Florian Weimer wrote:
> With upstream master as of commit
> bb6274ee1293a6bc76d9d7c889783303de181295, I see that make check in the
> localedata subdirectory needs lots and lots of memory (several gigabytes).
localedef has never been particularly parsimonious in its use of memory,
but historically that was of the form "if you're testing on a board with
e.g. only 32 MB of memory, you might need to cross-build the locales". It
shouldn't need several GB; I'd say if it's even using 256 MB it should be
made smarter.
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Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com