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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next prev parent 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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