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Subject: Re: Memory usage?
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On Mon, 2002-10-14 at 01:13, Steve Tsai wrote:
> Does JFFS2 will allocate large memory to read big file? I have  a 128M
> bytes nand flash on my board and there is a large file about 12M bytes.
> After I use the  testing program to read the file, the free memory
> reduce to 312Kbytes (from 10660Kbytes). How can I reduce the memory
> usage of JFFS2? Thanks.

what do you mean by "free memory", are you including buffers and cache?