msys/fla and load tims

David Woodhouse dwmw2 at infradead.org
Fri Feb 8 20:34:05 EST 2002


On Fri, 8 Feb 2002, Chris Fowler wrote:

> It appears that the device I'm building has hight load averages.  
> Around 1.  I notice that the msys/fla process is running with a priority
> of -10.  What I can not understand is what this process is doing. I
> mount my flash temporarily in r/o mode to load software. I also read
> about 30k of data from a raw partition.  The only time the flash is
> mounted r/w is during a flash.  Top shows all my processes idle.  This
> would be normal oreration for my system. Could the msys process be
> looping or doing something not needed?

We don't know. We don't have the source. I recommend you either ask 
M-Systems or use the driver in the kernel tree instead. I doubt that's 
perfect either - but at least we can improve that one.

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dwmw2





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