From: "yogeshwar sonawane" <yogyas@gmail.com>
To: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Excessive printks increase top mem usage?
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 18:53:29 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <b681c62b0701250523w14f0d0efl78b1ab3be7693c31@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
Subject is updated
On 1/25/07, yogeshwar sonawane <yogyas@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
> I am running a user application which will just open/close my driver
> (simple one, empty functions with only printks) infinitely.
> A massive use of printk can slow down the system noticeably OR it can
> affect some time calculations.
> Apart from this, it was increasing top mem usage also. After closing
> the application, the memory consumption was not coming down(not
> freeing mem). Is this the expected behaviour? OR i am missing
> something?
>
> Can anybody help me in guiding the reason for this? Any help/links plz.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Yogeshwar
>
next reply other threads:[~2007-01-25 13:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-01-25 13:23 yogeshwar sonawane [this message]
2007-01-26 1:03 ` David Schwartz
[not found] ` <b681c62b0702030411x2a61f453t4e2997ce866417e6@mail.gmail.com>
2007-02-04 11:10 ` yogeshwar sonawane
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