From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 18 Jun 2001 21:33:30 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 18 Jun 2001 21:33:20 -0400 Received: from falcon.mail.pas.earthlink.net ([207.217.120.74]:29934 "EHLO falcon.mail.pas.earthlink.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 18 Jun 2001 21:33:10 -0400 Message-ID: <3B2EACD9.D1D2B90A@earthlink.net> Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2001 20:37:29 -0500 From: Kelledin Tane X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.3 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: baggins@sith.mimuw.edu.pl CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Why can't I flush /dev/ram0? In-Reply-To: <3B2E6EA3.3DED7D95@earthlink.net> <20010618235537.B17458@sith.mimuw.edu.pl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > > When I mount the filesystem to check it out, nothing appears to have > > anything open on the filesystem. So why am I not able to flush it > > clean? > > Because of a bug present in Linus tree. Try this patch: Thanks, that seems to have fixed it. There's something else I'm curious about though... Before, when I was having this problem, I would check mem usage, and there would be about 5MB of physical memory marked for "buffers" (I assume 4MB for ram0). Now, using an identical kernel configuration, an identical module set loaded, and a roughly identical process table, there's about 18MB of memory marked for "buffers!" Sorry to be a bother, but I can't help wondering if this patch might have gotten rid of one problem and replaced it with another? Or maybe I'm missing some other detail here... Kelledin bash-2.05 $ kill -9 1 init: Just what do you think you're doing, Dave?