On Fri, 22 Mar 2024 14:50:03 +0300, Andrei Borzenkov wrote:
On Thu, Mar 21, 2024 at 8:04 PM Jim Henderson <hendersj@gmail.com> wrote:
[jhenderson@TheEarth ~]$ ls -l /sys/firmware/efi/efivars/
Well, the total size is about 45K. Of course, we do not know the implementation details and overhead, but still it is very unlikely that firmware needs additional 80K to manage 45K of data. It sounds more like either firmware needs to be tricked into garbage collection or it leaks variable storage. In both cases reinitializing settings may actually bring available space up to the reasonable size.
Good point and catch. I hadn't actually thought to add up the size of all the nodes in the filesystem. I'll mention that when I talk to support next. -- Jim Henderson Please keep on-topic replies on the list so everyone benefits