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Re: JFFS2 "eating memory" when creating files

From: Øyvind Harboe <oyvind dot harboe at zylin dot com>
To: Thomas Koeller <thomas dot koeller at baslerweb dot com>
Cc: Andrew Lunn <andrew at lunn dot ch>, ecos-discuss at sources dot redhat dot com
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 17:52:38 +0100
Subject: Re: [ECOS] JFFS2 "eating memory" when creating files
Organization: Zylin AS
References: <1078925132.26990.62.camel@famine> <20040318144215.GF31390@lunn.ch> <200403181732.26466.thomas.koeller@baslerweb.com>

> As I already pointed out earlier, every operation that modifies the contents
> of a JFFS2 file system writes new nodes to the log, which are represented in
> RAM as a struct raw_node_ref. Hence the increase in RAM usage is normal and
> expected behavior. RAM usage will continously increase until garbage collection
> is triggered.

I see.


> Try using the pool option and watch the increase disappear.

I guess I worry a bit about what size to set it to.

What will happen if I set it too low?

What is the right size for my application?

"Read the source Luke" :-)



Øyvind



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