Public bug reported:
Affects: Ubuntu 18.04
Snap filesystems mounted by snapd use kernel (and maybe userspace?)
ressources just for providing apps. Even if the app is not running, the
mount is still there, conuming system ressources.
We must remember that we are only at the beginning. If more and more
apps migrate to snap format, the filesystem mount table and thus
permanently used system ressources would grow even for any non-used app.
In the past, most unused features (beside system services like printer
environment etc.) on a linux system consumed disk space only, and affect
system performance only for some works, eg. doing a backup of the system
disk.
With snapd behaveing this way, we have to expect every utility (like a
clock, unused fonts, emoticon updates, ...) will permamently affect
system performance and user experience at any occasion mount points are
to be browsed.
Personal opinion: This strongly reminds me to the way Windows behaves,
and is hated for since ages. I cannot understand how someone could
consider this technique feasable for a productive OS.
** Affects: gnome-system-monitor (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1805468
Title:
Snap mounts bloat system footprint by inactive apps
Status in gnome-system-monitor package in Ubuntu:
New
Bug description:
Affects: Ubuntu 18.04
Snap filesystems mounted by snapd use kernel (and maybe userspace?)
ressources just for providing apps. Even if the app is not running,
the mount is still there, conuming system ressources.
We must remember that we are only at the beginning. If more and more
apps migrate to snap format, the filesystem mount table and thus
permanently used system ressources would grow even for any non-used
app.
In the past, most unused features (beside system services like printer
environment etc.) on a linux system consumed disk space only, and
affect system performance only for some works, eg. doing a backup of
the system disk.
With snapd behaveing this way, we have to expect every utility (like a
clock, unused fonts, emoticon updates, ...) will permamently affect
system performance and user experience at any occasion mount points
are to be browsed.
Personal opinion: This strongly reminds me to the way Windows behaves,
and is hated for since ages. I cannot understand how someone could
consider this technique feasable for a productive OS.
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