Re: Garbage collection on nearly-full filesystem

[Finn Hakansson <finn@xxxxxxx.com>]

I'm not sure if you have applied a patch that Simon Kågström here
at Axis found some time ago. He found that in jffs_fmalloc
(in jffs_fm.c) a piece of code looked like this:

	else {
		fm->offset = fmc->tail->offset + fmc->tail->size;
		fm->size = free_chunk_size1;
		fm->nodes = 0;
		fmc->dirty_size += size;
	}

but instead it should look like this:

	else {
		fm->offset = fmc->tail->offset + fmc->tail->size;
		fm->size = free_chunk_size1;
		fm->nodes = 0;
		fmc->dirty_size += fm->size;
	}

Notice the "fm->size" instead of only "size".

Ignore what I just wrote if you already have applied that patch.

Best regards,
Finn


On Sat, 15 Jul 2000, Nick Ivanter wrote:

> David Woodhouse wrote:
> 
> > bjorn.wesen@xxxxxxx.com said:
> > >  So the GC might be inefficient now, but at least it should not
> > > collect indefinitely (there was a bug before that could make that
> > > happen sometimes).
> >
> > You sure? Rounds 1->200 of the garbage collection look identical to me.
> > I'll leave it for a day or so and see what happens.
> >
> > [ouput skipped]
> > --
> > dwmw2
> 
> I faced the same problem of infinite garbage coolection some days ago.
> Debugging output was the same that in your case. I have not localized the
> origin of the problem yet. It would be cool if someone have.
> 
> Nick.
> 
>