Bug#593849: gconf2: gconftool-2 uses up all my ram during package upgrades

[Andres Salomon]

On Sat, 21 Aug 2010 19:20:07 +0200
Josselin Mouette <joss at debian.org> wrote:

> Le samedi 21 août 2010 à 11:24 -0400, Andres Salomon a écrit :
> > Watching gconftool-2 in top during the dist-upgrade shows it using
> > at least 100MB before completion..
> 
> If you know of a way to deal with 50 MB of XML code using DOM without
> needing 100 MB of RAM, I’m interested. There’s not much we can do
> here, it’s just that there are lots of schemas to register.
> 

Is this one massive chunk of xml, or could it be processed piecemeal?
(If the former.. aiee!)

Also, is it currently only being run when schemas actually change, or
just every time a schema file is touched?