Pirut and memory usage

[Jeremy Katz]

On Thu, 2006-01-12 at 03:08 +1030, n0dalus wrote:
> I ran the new package manager, and tried to install a few packages.
> 
> It's currently using between 110mb and 180mb of memory -- is this
> normal? I can't imagine this program would work well on a low-memory
> system. Does anyone else get this kind of memory usage?

There are a few things making the memory usage high right now.  I have a
few ideas on things that will help some.  Unfortunately, there's just a
lot of package data to be working with :-/

Jeremy