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From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: Frederic Giasson <fgiasson@mediatrix.com>
Cc: "'linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org'" <linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: Endless gc spining on nearly full JFFS2 fs
Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2002 13:43:02 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20574.1020170582@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <F1BED55F35F4D3118C0F00E0295CFF4D014ECEDE@mail.mediatrix.com>

fgiasson@mediatrix.com said:
>     I have noticed that the gc sometimes seems to spin-around for a
> very long time, if not endlessly, when files are copied to a nearly
> full JFFS2 drive.  

Hmmm. This shouldn't happen. Can you provide a log with the debugging 
enabled? Somehow, some space is being marked dirty when we're 
garbage-collecting, so it thinks it can still make some progress.

--
dwmw2

      reply	other threads:[~2002-04-30 12:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-04-30 12:40 Endless gc spining on nearly full JFFS2 fs Frederic Giasson
2002-04-30 12:43 ` David Woodhouse [this message]

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