Tapani Tarvainen <deb...@tapanitarvainen.fi> writes: >> What load of gunk will be dumped into / to take it bigger than 500 MB? > > I've got a box where /lib takes 200MB now, of which /lib/modules is > 140MB - and that's per kernel, during kernel updates it temporarily > doubles, taking /lib to 340MB or thereabouts. > > I do't see it at all impossible that the 500MB I have for / there now > will get too small before the machine is retired.
I've got a box with a 200MB root partition, so I'm very sensitive to such bloat. 500MB seems like luxury! :-) For a short period (2.6.28), the size of the kernel module tree in debian bloated up dramatically (they increased the max cpus to 512 and some per-module data structures used a fair amount of initialized space proportional to the number of cpus), but due to data structure improvements, it's back down to ~80MB per kernel in 2.6.29... -Miles -- Neighbor, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows how to make us disobedient. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org