gconv-modules.cache eating my memory!!!

dustu76 · 12-09-2004, 11:59 AM

Hi,

I'm using FC1 & have 256 MB of memory. My memstat output shows this:

Code:

[/home/soumen] $ memstat |sort -n |grep gconv
      8k: /usr/lib/gconv/ISO8859-1.so 596 791 806 821 823 824 827 828 911 91...
     24k: /usr/lib/gconv/gconv-modules.cache 596 791 806 821 823 824 827 828...
    672k: PID   912 (/usr/lib/gconv/gconv-modules.cache)
    792k: PID   823 (/usr/lib/gconv/gconv-modules.cache)
    872k: PID  1242 (/usr/lib/gconv/gconv-modules.cache)
   1224k: PID  1421 (/usr/lib/gconv/gconv-modules.cache)
   1224k: PID   828 (/usr/lib/gconv/gconv-modules.cache)
   1440k: PID  1198 (/usr/lib/gconv/gconv-modules.cache)
   1496k: PID   911 (/usr/lib/gconv/gconv-modules.cache)
   1556k: PID  1199 (/usr/lib/gconv/gconv-modules.cache)
   1584k: PID   824 (/usr/lib/gconv/gconv-modules.cache)
   1608k: PID  1236 (/usr/lib/gconv/gconv-modules.cache)
   1608k: PID  1237 (/usr/lib/gconv/gconv-modules.cache)
   1640k: PID   596 (/usr/lib/gconv/gconv-modules.cache)
   1744k: PID   791 (/usr/lib/gconv/gconv-modules.cache)
   1832k: PID   827 (/usr/lib/gconv/gconv-modules.cache)
[/home/soumen] $ memstat |sort -n |grep locale
      8k: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale/lib/common/xlcDef.so.2 806 821 822 823 8...
     36k: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale/lib/common/xomGeneric.so.2 806 821
    116k: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale/lib/common/ximcp.so.2 823 824 827 911 1198
    536k: PID  1423 (/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive)
    788k: PID   825 (/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive)
   1320k: PID   826 (/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive)
   1364k: PID   822 (/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale/lib/common/xlcDef.so.2)
   1532k: PID  1233 (/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive)
   1788k: /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive 596 791 806 821 823 824 825 826 827...
   1940k: PID  1424 (/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive)

As per this, this gconv is eating up so much of memory. I removed a lot of locales from /usr/lib/locale & re-built the archive. That freed up around 10MB of memory.

How can I bring this memory hijacking by gconv.. Please help.

Regards.