Comment 4 for bug 492973
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| Ev Kontsevoy (biz-kontsevoy) wrote Re: aptd daemon is using too much RAM | #4 |
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"Only requires 26MB"? That's 5 times of Apache Web Server!
Look, it does not matter how much RAM computers have these days: if you are writing a small peripheral daemon, you've got 0.5-2MB to fit it in. You simply cannot do it in Python.
I will repeate one more time: if every single one of daemons Ubuntu runs is written in Python, the operating system would require 1.5GB of RAM just to boot.
This is a bug, Sebastian, and a very serious one. I am not ranting, I am trying to fix what's broken. Perhaps I am opening bugs for the wrong person, can you please tell me who made the decision to include aptd in Ubuntu? Maybe I should be talking to that person.
Can you fit your daemon into 2-3MB just like *every other daemon* on the system? If not, remove it from the core distribution until it's fixed. This is irresponsible: if other Ubuntu developers start grabbing megabytes of RAM for their individual goals, the entire project will drawn in irrelevance.