Public bug reported: This is a tracking bug for what might be kernel bugs or kernel configuration changes.
As described [1], memory used by simply mounting a squashfs file (even an empty one) is ranging from almost nothing (on certain distributions) to 131MB on Ubuntu 16.04 and 16.10 on a single-core machine or VM. The amount is excessive and should be investigated by the kernel team. We may need to change the kernel or at least the configuration we ship in our packages and kernel snaps. [1] https://github.com/zyga/mounted-fs-memory-checker ** Affects: snappy Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Affects: linux (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Also affects: linux (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1636847 Title: unexpectedly large memory usage of mounted snaps To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/snappy/+bug/1636847/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
