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From: Albrecht =?iso-8859-1?b?RHJl3w==?= <albrecht.dress@arcor.de>
Subject: Re: JFFS2 Garbage collection issue
To: Joakim Tjernlund <joakim.tjernlund@transmode.se>
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Hi Jocke:

Am 27.11.13 11:30 schrieb(en) Joakim Tjernlund:
> BTW, I guess you got logging to file such as syslog on your system? JFFS2=
 really don't do well with small incremental writes. I recommend you turn s=
uch logging off.

Does the delay by the gc process happen only when the jffs2 fs is mounted, =
or also during the normal operation when many updates occur?

Background: I had a similar issue as Harald with a NVRAM which is used to h=
old quickly changing event buffers and logs.  My solution was to wait for t=
he gc process during the startup of the system, before the "main" applicati=
on is launched.  However, if this could also happen *after* the initial sca=
n has finished, this would be bad news for me, as I then probably would nee=
d the SIG(STOP|CONT) approach...

Thanks,
Albrecht.=

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