Aaron Griffin wrote:
That's actually not entirely true. Dan and I investigated this. The previous low memory issues were caused by the entire install system never leaving the initramfs, and remaining entirely in RAM - which soaked far more than pacman ever will. Additionally, with the dynamic package patch (dunno if this is in the master branch yet), memory usage sank by leaps and bounds.
Yes it is, go go Dan :) http://toofishes.net/blog/valgrind-330-and-new-massif/
