From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Can't free the ramdisk (initrd, pivot_root)
Date: 15 Apr 2001 18:32:45 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9bdi3t$th3$1@cesium.transmeta.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3ADA0B50.8030301@muppetlabs.com>
Followup to: <3ADA0B50.8030301@muppetlabs.com>
By author: Amit D Chaudhary <amit@muppetlabs.com>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> On the same topic, I have not found any change in free memory
> reported before and after the ioctl call. Though umount /initrd does
> free around 2 MB.
>
With Scott's patch applied, I get substantially better performance on
low-memory machines, so I'm guessing it's doing its job. Also, just
umount /initrd for me made it still possible to mount it, so it
clearly did not go away.
-hpa
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-04-16 1:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-04-15 20:57 Can't free the ramdisk (initrd, pivot_root) Amit D Chaudhary
2001-04-16 1:32 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2001-04-16 1:53 ` Scott Murray
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2001-06-18 13:21 Ralph Jones
2001-04-15 6:36 H. Peter Anvin
2001-04-15 18:26 ` Scott Murray
2001-04-16 1:31 ` H. Peter Anvin
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