Ubuntu
initramfs-tools package

  1. Bug #1970402
  2. Comment #11

Comment 11 for bug 1970402

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Sébastien Le Callonnec (tychobrailleur) wrote :

I had the same issue compiling a 5.15.36 kernel on Ubuntu 22.04, initrd.img (.tmp) below was causing Out of memory:

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 13628696 May 23 22:58 initrd.img-5.15.36+
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 515731970 May 23 22:58 initrd.img-5.15.36+.tmp

Switching MODULES=most (which produced .tmp above) to MODULES=dep in /etc/initramfs-tools/initramfs.conf produced the smaller initrd.img, and fixed the issue.

$ cat /proc/meminfo
MemTotal: 16065036 kB
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