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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: Can't free the ramdisk (initrd, pivot_root)
Date: 15 Apr 2001 18:32:45 -0700
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By author:    Amit D Chaudhary <amit@muppetlabs.com>
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> 
> 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.
> 

With Scott's patch applied, I get substantially better performance on
low-memory machines, so I'm guessing it's doing its job.  Also, just
umount /initrd for me made it still possible to mount it, so it
clearly did not go away.

	-hpa

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