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Re: JFFS2 eats memory
On Tuesday 13 July 2004 11:49, Øyvind Harboe wrote:
> Changing the size of jffs2_raw_node_ref does not help much, since the
> problem is that my system runs out of memory since it continously
> overwrites existing files, thus filling up the flash with obsoleted
> nodes.
If this is so, then you are actually using only a fraction of the flash
memory you have available. In this case you could reduce the amount of
flash allocated to your JFFS2 file system, so that the garbage collection
would be triggered earlier, and you'd get fewer obsoleted nodes in RAM.
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Thomas Koeller
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