From: "Øyvind Harboe" <oyvind.harboe@zylin.com>
To: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Cc: ecos-discuss@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: [ECOS] JFFS2 eats memory
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 08:09:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1089706190.5995.10.camel@famine> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040713075318.GP18802@lunn.ch>
On Tue, 2004-07-13 at 09:53, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> > > Presumably when the raw nodes in the file fragement list are marked as
> > > obsolete, they are no longer required, but are not freed.
>
> One other thing. You might consider try gettting the garbage collect
> code runnig. This might help solve your problem.
I just took it for a spin: no change.
This is not surprising.
There is nothing to garbage collect, i.e. there is plenty of free space
on the JFFS2 drive and very few deleted raw nodes.
> I guess as a proof of concept just call
> jffs2_garbage_collect_pass(JFFS2_SB_INFO(jffs2_sb));
>
> This is not strictly correct since you need to add locking to one of
> the lists to make this thread safe. I forget which and i've forgotten
> where i read about this, but im sure google will find it for you.
>
> Andrew
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Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-07-12 14:42 Øyvind Harboe
2004-07-13 7:40 ` Andrew Lunn
2004-07-13 7:53 ` Andrew Lunn
2004-07-13 8:09 ` Øyvind Harboe [this message]
2004-07-13 8:31 ` Øyvind Harboe
2004-07-13 7:58 ` Øyvind Harboe
2004-07-13 9:30 ` David Woodhouse
2004-07-13 9:49 ` Øyvind Harboe
2004-07-13 10:05 ` David Woodhouse
2004-07-13 10:39 ` Øyvind Harboe
2004-07-13 13:41 ` Øyvind Harboe
2004-07-13 23:01 ` [ECOS] " David Woodhouse
2004-07-14 8:15 ` Øyvind Harboe
2004-07-19 14:25 ` Øyvind Harboe
2004-07-19 15:15 ` David Woodhouse
2004-07-19 16:32 ` Øyvind Harboe
2004-07-20 6:42 ` David Woodhouse
2004-07-20 7:51 ` Øyvind Harboe
2004-07-20 14:25 ` David Woodhouse
2004-07-20 15:51 ` Øyvind Harboe
2004-07-20 16:08 ` David Woodhouse
2004-07-20 20:29 ` Øyvind Harboe
2004-07-21 2:28 ` David Woodhouse
2004-07-21 7:54 ` Øyvind Harboe
[not found] ` <1090410703.4280.10.camel@localhost.localdomain>
2004-07-21 12:50 ` Øyvind Harboe
2004-07-21 16:33 ` David Woodhouse
2004-07-20 13:46 ` Øyvind Harboe
2004-07-13 10:08 ` [ECOS] " Thomas Koeller
2008-04-08 15:28 Jürgen Lambrecht
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