Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 25 Jan 2007 18:53:29 +0530 | From | "yogeshwar sonawane" <> | Subject | Re: Excessive printks increase top mem usage? |
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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 > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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