The threshold of 5K is based on information we received from vendors. We won't be reducing it. Can you confirm that attempting to create a variable larger than the remaining space in boot services will trigger garbage collection?-- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-efi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html