Comment 14 for bug 24626

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Karl Hegbloom (karl.hegbloom) wrote : Re: [Bug 24626] Re: Too many repositories "dynamic mmap ran out of room"

On Sun, 2009-08-09 at 12:07 +0000, Denis Rut'kov wrote:
> I just ran into this problem. However, it may be a bit different, the
> problem appears only when I use not standard LOCALE (LANG=UTF8.RU_ru in
> my case). When I use LANG=C the problem disappears.

I think that's probably because of the LANG=UTF8.RU_ru characters taking
up more than one byte each, where LANG=C characters are essentially 1
byte ASCII. So, for the same text in the package descriptions, etc, it's
using roughly twice as much memory, so no wonder it runs out of room.

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