Am 28.09.2012 um 16:10 schrieb Jérémie Dubois-Lacoste: > The solution that worked for us is a post-install fix that consists of > removing all languages that we don't use. We checked with "locale" > which languages are used on the system. Then we remove all the others: > $ localedef --list-archive | grep -v -e "en_US" -e "de_DE" -e "en_GB" > | xargs localedef --delete-from-archive > $ mv /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive.tmpl > $ build-locale-archive > After this, the size of the locale-archive file is ~4MB, and running a > single Bash instance does not show "107MB" for SGE anymore :-) Et voilà! thank you for this explanation did you test something like this? ls -al /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Sep 3 12:35 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive -> /dev/null -- LF