[HEADS-UP] Moving /var/run and /var/lock to tmpfs in Rawhide

[Matthew Miller]

On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 10:09:25PM -0800, Adam Williamson wrote:
> > Meanwhile, NetworkManager is doing absolutely nothing for me, and is
> > taking up a USS of 65.3M. If we're gonna tilt at memory consumption
> > windmills, how about we take a look at that one?
> Are you sure that's right? According to htop, it only uses 3MB, here.
> (nm-applet is another 10MB).

I'm not sure it's *right*, but I'm sure it's *accurate* -- that's what I'm
seeing. (No nm-applet currently running, btw.)

On my (F13) laptop, it seems to be using only a reasonable 1.9M USS, while
nm-applet is 14.4M.

Anyway, even at 3M, that's an order of magnitude more than the amount we're
talking about with /var/{run,lock}. And while NetworkManager is fun to pick
on, I'm sure there's dozens of other places where we've consumed a meg of
memory without blinking. I've apparently got deja-dup-monitor running, for
example, even though I do my backups a different way.


-- 
Matthew Miller <mattdm at mattdm.org>
Senior Systems Architect -- Instructional & Research Computing Services
Harvard School of Engineering & Applied Sciences