JFFS2 garbage collector blocking for minutes after mount

David Woodhouse dwmw2 at infradead.org
Wed Jul 20 15:17:21 EDT 2005


On Wed, 2005-07-20 at 16:34 +0200, Martin Egholm Nielsen wrote:
> I'm not comfortable with profiling the kernel... It could be arranged, 
> but I rather see if the a recent CVS snapshot does it for me... ;-)

Profiling isn't hard or intrusive -- all you need to do is boot with
something like 'profile=1' on the kernel command line, then
read /proc/profile after the GC thread has finished doing its thing.

Then the readprofile tool will be able to tell you where the time was
spent.

-- 
dwmw2





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