Re: [Yaffs] Why do I get a "gc prioritised" message?

On Friday 19 January 2007 03:11, tike64 wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Allen:
> > Charles:
> >> If you are getting many of these, then you might have some issues
> >> with ecc or similar.
> >
> > Ok, this is a little scary... How do we investigate this further?
>
> I'm getting those messages a lot and feel a little scary too. I'm
> getting them on the second umount after filling the filesystem,
> something like this:
>
> flash_eraseall
> mount
> umount - nothing
> mount
> umount - nothing
> -
> -
> mount
> fill the filesystem
> umount - nothing
> mount
> umount - about thousand of 'gc ...' messages
>
> After that, every umount generates the messages. The amount of them
> might roughly reflect the size of the data in the filesystem.

Please quote some actual lines out of the log, as well as /proc/yaffs before
and after the problem starts happening.

>
> Now the questions:
>
> Is this really harmless?
>
> If this reflects some problem, how can we trace it?
>
> What does it actually do? Should I expect problems if I power the
> system off without umounting? With older version in kernel 2.6.14 I
> didn't get any problems.
>
> --
>
> tike
>
>
>
>
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