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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=554500913-18012008>I have a
linux-2.6.19.2 board with an MPC880 with 16MB ram and 16 MB flash.
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=554500913-18012008>Normally I have 9-10
MB of free RAM.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=554500913-18012008>If I allocate 5 MB
of ram memory, the system continues to work normally, but if, instead of
allocating 5 MB directly, I fill the /tmp directory (that has a tmpfs file
system) with a 5MB file the system becomes slow and after some minutes the
oom_killer is invoked. Before it dies I had the time to see that mtdblockd is
taking a lot of CPU (20%), what could be the problem?</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=554500913-18012008>Any hint will be
appreciate,</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
class=554500913-18012008>Bye,</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
class=554500913-18012008>Antonio.</SPAN></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>