Package: systemd Version: 256.5-1 Severity: minor https://current.workingdirectory.net/posts/2024/who-ate-my-ram/
The above blog post from Planet Debian shows an issue that isn't that uncommon of running out of RAM due to writing to the wrong name under /dev (eg writing to /dev/nul). While the script in question shouldn't do that it would be good to have the result of doing so not involve making a server unusable. The command "mount -o remount,size=10m /dev" reduces the size and potential wasted RAM to 10M which prevents this sort of thing from becoming a serious problem and has no downsides that I can imagine. 10M should be more than enough for the systems with the largest numbers of devices. I'm filing this bug report against systemd because it's related to boot scripts and I can't think of a better target. -- Package-specific info: -- System Information: Debian Release: trixie/sid Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 6.10.6-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads; PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_AU:en Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: unable to detect Versions of packages systemd depends on: ii libacl1 2.3.2-2 ii libapparmor1 3.1.7-1+b1 ii libaudit1 1:4.0.1-1 ii libblkid1 2.40.2-7 ii libc6 2.39-7 ii libcap2 1:2.66-5 ii libmount1 2.40.2-7 ii libpam0g 1.5.3-7 ii libseccomp2 2.5.5-1+b1 ii libselinux1 3.7-1+b1 ii libssl3t64 3.3.1-7 ii libsystemd-shared 256.5-1 ii libsystemd0 256.5-1 ii mount 2.40.2-7 Versions of packages systemd recommends: ii dbus [default-dbus-system-bus] 1.14.10-4+b1 ii libzstd1 1.5.6+dfsg-1 pn linux-sysctl-defaults <none> pn systemd-cryptsetup <none> ii systemd-timesyncd [time-daemon] 256.5-1 Versions of packages systemd suggests: ii libcryptsetup12 2:2.7.4-1 ii libgcrypt20 1.11.0-6 ii libidn2-0 2.3.7-2 ii liblz4-1 1.9.4-3 ii liblzma5 5.6.2-2 pn libtss2-rc0t64 <none> ii libtss2-tcti-device0t64 [libtss2-tcti-device0] 4.1.3-1 ii polkitd 125-2 pn systemd-boot <none> ii systemd-container 256.5-1 pn systemd-homed <none> pn systemd-repart <none> ii systemd-resolved 256.5-1 pn systemd-userdbd <none> Versions of packages systemd is related to: ii dbus-user-session 1.14.10-4+b1 pn dracut <none> ii initramfs-tools 0.145 ii libnss-systemd 256.5-1 ii libpam-systemd 256.5-1 ii udev 256.5-1 -- Configuration Files: /etc/systemd/journald.conf [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/etc/systemd/journald.conf' -- debconf-show failed
