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From: Saku Laesvuori via Bug reports for GNU Guix <bug-guix@gnu.org>
To: Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant@debian.org>
Cc: 64775@debbugs.gnu.org, Csepp <raingloom@riseup.net>
Subject: bug#64775: /run should be cleaned on boot
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2023 23:24:17 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230721202417.6kfmen37cc2h25ko@X-kone> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <875y6dyr4l.fsf@wireframe>

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> > I vote for TMPFS, since that would also reduce flash wear.
> > Honestly I don't get why it's not already using TMPFS.
>
> One argument could be how much ram it takes:
> 
>   $ du -sc /run/*
>   12      /run/blkid
>   0       /run/booted-system
>   0       /run/current-system
>   1312    /run/setuid-programs
>   524     /run/udev
>   1848    total
> 
> That is with no explicit setuid programs configured, on a machine with a
> fairly minimal configuration.
> 
> Not a *huge* amount of ram, but not nothing, either...

I'd say it's effectively nothing for almost all devices capable of
running Guix. On my laptop the size of /run is 4804 (4.7M). In a quick
test one terminal window with only zsh running in it took almost 10
times as much ram.

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  reply	other threads:[~2023-07-22  2:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-07-21 19:23 bug#64775: /run should be cleaned on boot Vagrant Cascadian
2023-07-21 19:36 ` Csepp
2023-07-21 19:57   ` Vagrant Cascadian
2023-07-21 20:24     ` Saku Laesvuori via Bug reports for GNU Guix [this message]
2023-08-06 13:18       ` Hilton Chain via Bug reports for GNU Guix
2023-08-06 20:06         ` Vagrant Cascadian
2023-08-07  1:33           ` Hilton Chain via Bug reports for GNU Guix
2023-08-07 14:39         ` Maxim Cournoyer
     [not found] <87r0uuehlr.fsf@nckx>
     [not found] ` <129e8d298556f6a159fcb704ed3df4bf0709ddd3.1689465600.git.me@tobias.gr>
     [not found]   ` <87edl1yu2k.fsf@wireframe>
     [not found]     ` <87bkg5yt91.fsf@wireframe>
     [not found]       ` <87r0odpmot.fsf_-_@gnu.org>
     [not found]         ` <87o7ipvbhh.fsf__48662.4622646318$1693341314$gmane$org@wireframe>
2023-08-29 21:21           ` brian via Bug reports for GNU Guix
     [not found]         ` <87o7ipvbhh.fsf@wireframe>
2024-09-15 22:29           ` Ludovic Courtès

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