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From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: Steven Scholz <steven.scholz@imc-berlin.de>
Cc: MTD <linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: Stopping the GC thread?
Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2003 17:18:02 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1055348281.2097.245.camel@passion.cambridge.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3EE754E4.7080800@imc-berlin.de>

On Wed, 2003-06-11 at 17:12, Steven Scholz wrote:
> (How) Could I trigger the GC thread to test its impact on my 
> application or the overall system performance?
> Is there a signal I could sent to start a GC?

No. You used to be able to trigger it by repeatedly sending it SIGHUP
but that doesn't work any more. I keep intending to make the thresholds
tunable in /proc though, which you could abuse to do what you want.

-- 
dwmw2

  reply	other threads:[~2003-06-11 16:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-06-11 16:03 Stopping the GC thread? Steven Scholz
2003-06-11 16:07 ` David Woodhouse
2003-06-11 16:12   ` Steven Scholz
2003-06-11 16:18     ` David Woodhouse [this message]
2003-06-11 16:20       ` Steven Scholz
2003-06-11 16:23         ` David Woodhouse
2003-06-12  9:08   ` Steven Scholz
2003-06-12  9:18     ` David Woodhouse
2003-06-12  9:35       ` Steven Scholz
2003-06-12  9:41         ` David Woodhouse
2003-06-12  9:52         ` Jörn Engel

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