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[Julian Edwards <julian.edwards@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday 05 July 2011 12:38:43 John Arbash Meinel wrote:
> For example, the python redirect script that is loaded into memory
> whenever Apache starts loads enough of Launchpad's codebase, that it is
> about 130MB on a 32-bit machine, and 230MB or so on a 64-bit machine.
> I'm pretty sure that most of it could page out to swap since it doesn't
> get actively touched. But that is still almost 1/16 of my RAM for
> something that isn't being used. (Firefox can end up taking more RAM
> sometimes, but at least I was using it during that time. :)

I just filed https://bugs.launchpad.net/launchpad/+bug/806361 about this 
because it annoys me a lot too.