Bug 785538 - Initramdisk is permanently blocking 20MB of RAM
Summary: Initramdisk is permanently blocking 20MB of RAM
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 751189
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: dracut
Version: rawhide
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Assignee: dracut-maint
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2012-01-29 12:10 UTC by Zdenek Kabelac
Modified: 2012-02-08 17:02 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2012-02-08 17:02:10 UTC
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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 ***
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