Re: Can't free the ramdisk (initrd, pivot_root)

From: H. Peter Anvin (hpa@zytor.com)
Date: Sun Apr 15 2001 - 20:32:45 EST


Followup to: <3ADA0B50.8030301@muppetlabs.com>
By author: Amit D Chaudhary <amit@muppetlabs.com>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> On the same topic, I have not found any change in free memory
> reported before and after the ioctl call. Though umount /initrd does
> free around 2 MB.
>

With Scott's patch applied, I get substantially better performance on
low-memory machines, so I'm guessing it's doing its job. Also, just
umount /initrd for me made it still possible to mount it, so it
clearly did not go away.

        -hpa

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