Memory usage for ubifs writes
Lluís Batlle i Rossell
viriketo at gmail.com
Sun Jun 19 15:48:35 EDT 2011
On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 07:51:53PM +0200, David Kuehling wrote:
> >>>>> "David" == David Kuehling <dvdkhlng at gmx.de> writes:
>
> > Hi,
>
> > when trying to save a 17kB file in Emacs to my 1.5GB ubifs data
> > partition, the OOM killer kills emacs, although at least 5MB of RAM
> > should still be available. This could be an emacs problem, but I
> > somehow doubt it.
>
> > Is ubifs somehow very memory hungry (does it need much memory to move
> > eraseblocks around?)
>
> Do we have a general memory usage problem? (Note: i'm running a
> openwrt-_trunk_ nightly build from a few weeks ago)
>
> Typing 'free' it says:
>
> total used free shared buffers cached
> Mem: 28048 15392 12656 0 0 1220
> -/+ buffers/cache: 14172 13876
> Swap: 0 0 0
>
> 14 MB RAM in usage by default? IIRC that's more than a minimal Debian
> system uses!
I wrote this tool to get nicer memory reports. It takes a while to understand
the numbers...
depending on the kernel version, you may need to adjust the code though.
Feel free to try it. It needs swap to build *in* the nanonote, but you should be
able to cross-build it easily. It needs some special kernel parameters enabled;
I don't know if your kernel will have them.
http://vicerveza.homeunix.net/~viric/cgi-bin/memstat/index
Regards,
Lluís.
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