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From: Steven Scholz <steven.scholz@imc-berlin.de>
To: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: MTD <linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: Stopping the GC thread?
Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2003 18:12:20 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3EE754E4.7080800@imc-berlin.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1055347637.2097.240.camel@passion.cambridge.redhat.com

David Woodhouse schrieb:
> On Wed, 2003-06-11 at 17:03, Steven Scholz wrote:
> 
>>Is it safe to just do a
>>
>>~ # kill -s SIGSTOP `pidof jffs2_gcd_mtd0`
>>
>>even if my root fs is on this JFFS2 partition?
> 
> 
> Yes.
> 
> 
>>(I just tried it now and it seems to work. But IIRC a while ago my 
>>system hung when I did something like that...)
> 
> 
> It shouldn't. The GC thread remains strictly an optimisation (and
> doesn't exist in the eCos port, etc.)
> 

Thanks for that!
(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?

Steven




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  reply	other threads:[~2003-06-11 16:11 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 [this message]
2003-06-11 16:18     ` David Woodhouse
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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