From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 18 Jun 2001 09:22:37 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 18 Jun 2001 09:22:27 -0400 Received: from c012-h010.c012.sfo.cp.net ([209.228.13.104]:5076 "HELO c012.sfo.cp.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Mon, 18 Jun 2001 09:22:17 -0400 Date: 18 Jun 2001 06:21:56 -0700 Message-ID: <20010618132156.24334.cpmta@c012.sfo.cp.net> X-Sent: 18 Jun 2001 13:21:56 GMT Content-Type: text/plain Content-Disposition: inline Mime-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Ralph Jones X-Mailer: Web Mail 3.9.3.1 Subject: Re: Can't free the ramdisk (initrd, pivot_root) X-Sent-From: ralph.jones@altavista.com Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun Apr 15 2001 - 15:57:52, EST Amit D Chaudhary (amit@muppetlabs.com) wrote: > 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. I have found the same thing - that umount /initrd seems to free the memory and that freeramdisk (with the patch to rd.c) does not appear to do anything. I have not found any more correspondance about this topic and was wondering if this behaviour was ok. Specifically I would like to know if I need to apply the rd.c patch and then to run freeramdisk, or if I can just leave this out. Ralph Jones Find the best deals on the web at AltaVista Shopping! http://www.shopping.altavista.com