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On Wed, 2005-07-06 at 15:46 -0700, Greg KH wrote: |
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> To start with, the 061 version of udev offers a big memory savings if |
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> you use the "default" kernel name of a device[3]. If you do that, it does |
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> not create a file in its database in /dev/.udevdb/ |
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So if we were to switch to udev 061 in genkernel, it would shrink memory |
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usage in our initrd/initramfs, provided we made everything use the LSB |
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device names/nodes, versus the devfs ones, correct? |
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> If we can move away from some of our devfs-like names, we stand to |
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> reclaim a lot of memory from everyone's machines. As an example, if we |
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> drop all of the tty/pts/vc/vcc symlinks, and just go with the default |
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> kernel name, we save 2.5Mb of space in tempfs/ramfs. I've done this on |
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> my machines and everything seems to work just fine (it looks like |
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> everything that was trying to use a tty node was just using the symlink |
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> anyway.) |
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> So, anyone have any objections to me changing the default udev naming |
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> scheme in this manner? |
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None here. Anything that gives us more usable RAM even after we've |
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snatched some for the initrd and for /dev and for the tmpfs of the |
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LiveCD/InstallCD is fine by me. |
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Chris Gianelloni |
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Release Engineering - Strategic Lead/QA Manager |
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Games - Developer |
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Gentoo Linux |
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