Bug 785538

Summary:	Initramdisk is permanently blocking 20MB of RAM
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Zdenek Kabelac <zkabelac>
Component:	dracut	Assignee:	dracut-maint
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	rawhide	CC:	dracut-maint, harald, jonathan
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Description Zdenek Kabelac 2012-01-29 12:10:12 UTC

Description of problem:

Not really sure which package is responsible for this - but I assume it's related to startup/shutdown process thus opening bugzilla for dracut.

Blocking ~19MB of RAM to keep data for shutdown is not very smart - this memory should be only occupied when really needed.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
dracut-014-77.git20120126.fc17.1.noarch

How reproducible:

du -s   /run/initramfs/
18932	/run/initramfs/


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Expected results:
Ramdisk is decompressed only for shutdown when needed.


Additional info:

Comment 1 Harald Hoyer 2012-02-03 10:53:54 UTC

Should be fixed, with the latest dracut versions. please retest. should be a lot smaller now.

Comment 2 Harald Hoyer 2012-02-08 17:02:10 UTC

To completly turn it off:
# echo "unset prefix" >> /etc/dracut.conf.d/99-my.conf

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 751189 ***