#4281 NORM Future : Omnibus cleanup

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#4281: Omnibus cleanup
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  Reporter:  wmb at firmworks.com  |       Owner:  jg            
      Type:  defect             |      Status:  new           
  Priority:  normal             |   Milestone:  Future Release
 Component:  distro             |     Version:                
Resolution:                     |    Keywords:                
  Verified:  0                  |    Blocking:                
 Blockedby:                     |  
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Comment(by cscott):

 Replying to [comment:11 cscott]:
 > Also, naively reducing the space taken by bootanim (11) will actually
 drastically increase RAM usage, since mmapped pages are clean & can be
 swapped out to the backing store, while uncompressed images will be dirty
 & thus pinned in RAM.

 Mitch_Bradley: I don't understand your latest comment on 4281.  Why would
 you ever need to keep more than one image in RAM?

 C. Scott Ananian: originally the boot animation was cyclic.

 C. Scott Ananian: the code hasn't been updated to reflect that the images
 are now use-once.

 C. Scott Ananian: it's not a big problem, just a warning to prospective
 patchers to make sure  they fix the whole problem, not just the obvious
 bit.

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Ticket URL: <http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/4281#comment:12>
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