localedef ridiculously slow on low-memory machines
Bug #377242 reported by
AlainKnaff
This bug affects 2 people
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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glibc (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
When installing Kubuntu on a machine with low memory (128M), locale-gen and localedef take up the major part of the installation time.
Localedef takes several minutes per locale, and the whole thing is made worse by the long list of "variants" of english locales that are installed (en_HK, en_IE, ....)
Two ideas of solving this:
- check localedef's algorithm whether this excessive memory consumption (95 Megs!) is actually needed.
- make the list of english locale's *much* shorter (only en_UK and en_US), and only add the others on request
This issue has plagued (K)ubuntu since at leas 7.04
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Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.