[lvm-devel] lvm and locales memory issue

[Jakub Jelinek]

On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 09:52:19AM +0100, Zdenek Kabelac wrote:
> Ok - and now I'm getting confused and lost here.
> 
> >From our chat I've got impression that using 'localedef' is perfectly valid
> way how to create usable content for /usr/lib/locale.

True, but very costly one.

time for i in `cat /tmp/SUPPORTED`; do j=`echo $i | sed 's,/.*$,,'`; k=`echo $i | sed 's,^.*/,,'`; l=`echo $j | sed 's/\..*$//'`; localedef -A /usr/share/locale/locale.alias --no-archive -f $k -i $l -c /tmp/nyy/$j; done

real	6m12.985s
user	5m34.818s
sys	0m33.134s

Do you seriously suggest that we spend 6 minutes on very fast machines
during glibc-common upgrades?  You must be joking.

	Jakub