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

Ralph Jones (ralph.jones@altavista.com)
18 Jun 2001 06:21:56 -0700


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

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