high cpu usage using nftl for DOC2000

[David Woodhouse]

On Fri, 2003-10-03 at 10:07 +0800, Selwyn Tang wrote:
> Hi Edward,
> 
> On 10/02/2003 02:54 PM, edward jose wrote:
> > i don't know if any one else experience this, i have a doc2000 with linux 
> > 2.4.17 kernel compiled with mtd and doc modules. i use the kernel to boot 
> > the doc2000 everything is ok, but when i check the cpu load, it uses all the 
> 
> I experienced the same problem recently. I notice that whenever I try to
> access the DOC, the process [nftla] starts to use up all the cpu time.
> Right now I am suspecting that it is the problem with the filesystem on
> the DOC. Sometimes, after running e2fsck on my ext2 partition on the
> DOC, the problem just goes away. I have this problem both in 2.4.22 and
> 2.4.17, both patched with mtd snapshots of different dates. Therefore, I
>  think it is a problem with the mtd driver.

Boot with 'profile=1' and use readprofile to see where it's spending all
the CPU time. Note your driver must be built-in to the kernel for this.

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