Re: Stopping the GC thread?

Steven Scholz
2003-06-11T16:11:52Z

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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