Excessive memory usage on live CD
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Baltix |
Invalid
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High
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Mantas Kriaučiūnas | ||
casper (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Low
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Unassigned | ||
linux (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
linux-ubuntu-modules-2.6.22 (Ubuntu) |
Won't Fix
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
I was poking around the /cow filesystem to see how much memory was being used and why. The figure was higher than I expected (14M), and the bulk of it was due to two things:
/var/cache/debconf - the templates are huge, but we're also storing two copies of them (templates.dat and templates.dat-old). Unlinking templates.dat-old should immediately free up 5M of memory, at least until ubiquity runs. It would be nice if we could avoid this entirely, though. An md5sum check reveals that templates.dat and templates.dat-old are identical; if it's unchanged, then why make a backup? I don't see why this file should need to change during a casper session
/lib/modules - something is causing many kernel modules to be copied, but not all of them. I'll attach a list.
Related branches
Changed in baltix: | |
status: | New → Confirmed |
importance: | Undecided → Medium |
assignee: | nobody → Mantas Kriaučiūnas (mantas) |
List of modules in /cow