Hi, I have a weird bug here with initramfs, I have big initramfs files around 150MB zipped, 400MB extracted. I suppose the needed RAM to boot this setup should be around: 150MB zipped initramfs+ 400MB extracted initramfs + 5MB kernel image. Our distro kernel has tmpfs support, booting this setup without kernel parameter needs around 1000MB RAM to boot. Using rootfstype=ramfs makes it work with around 600MB RAM.
Is this a bug in kernel code? Shouldn't both types not use the same amount of RAM? I used kernel 3.18.2 at the moment but issue is reproducable with 3.15 too. Thanks for your help. greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org [email protected]
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