Quoting Frans Pop (elen...@planet.nl): > 1. Package size - impact on initrd size and memory usage > -------------------------------------------------------- > In general I think it is necessary to be very alert on this, especially > for udebs that are included in initrds. > > .iso size free mem after boot > mini.iso: 8,916,992B 230,884kB > mini-cs-i386.iso 9,267,200B 229,608kB > > Christian did forget to drop console-keymaps-at from his iso, so the > actual numbers should be a bit lower. If I correct for that, I get: > > - a ~250Kb (2.8%) initrd size increase > - an extra memory usage of just under 1Mb (!)
Updated numbers after creating an image without console-keymaps-at and
with console-setup 1.40:
.iso size initrd size free mem after boot
mini.iso: 8,923,136B 15,955,968B 231,048kB
mini-cs-i386.iso 9,150,464B 16,284,672B 231,184kB
initrd size : +328Kb
memory : -136Kb!!
Odd, isn't it?
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