On 2025-09-15 11:28:41 -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: > >> The normal size of an initrd image (i.e. by installing the > >> recommended packages) is not about 9 MB, but now 100 MB: > >> > >> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 99M 2025-05-27 23:26:17 initrd.img-6.7.12-amd64 > >> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 104M 2025-08-11 23:40:35 > >> initrd.img-6.12.38+deb13-amd64 > >> > >> (this is with maximum compression). > > Hmm... > > % l /boot/initrd.img-6.1* > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 13453587 7 jui 17:44 > /boot/initrd.img-6.12.33+deb13-amd64 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 13621466 29 aoû 18:54 > /boot/initrd.img-6.12.38+deb13-amd64 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 13715054 11 sep 11:22 > /boot/initrd.img-6.16.3+deb14-amd64 > % > > But yes, I'm using `MODULES=dep` and `COMPRESS=lzma` (tho I don't think > the COMPRESS setting is the source of the discrepancy).
So I've tried MODULES=dep (and still COMPRESS=lzma and COMPRESSLEVEL=9 as before). Now: -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 122M 2025-09-16 00:43:13 initrd.img-6.16.7+deb14-amd64 But this is still *a lot*. -- Vincent Lefèvre <[email protected]> - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / Pascaline project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)
