Excessive memory usage in lt-gcj-dbtool

Sat Nov 11 09:52:00 GMT 2006

Diego Novillo writes:
 > 
 > I am working on a branch and today I tried merging trunk into my branch to bring it up to date. I noticed the following in a non-bootstrapping build of my branch:
 > 
 > Mem: 2053792k total, 2038476k used, 15316k free, 4176k buffers
 > Swap: 1004020k total, 728536k used, 275484k free, 46528k cached
 > 
 > PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
 > 10526 dnovillo 26 10 2026m 1.6g 9628 D 1 83.4 0:16.42 lt-gcj-dbtool
 > 
 > 
 > Is this to be expected? It essentially kidnapped my desktop for a while.
 > I haven't done a build on trunk, so I am not sure it's just my branch.
That seems odd. At that point gcj-dbtool has only an empty database,
so its memory usage should be small.
Andrew.