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Memory usage on large encrypted volumes
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brett Eldridge)
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From: Brett Eldridge <beldridg@best.com>
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Subject: Memory usage on large encrypted volumes
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CFS 1.4beta2 on linux 2.2.0-final.
I tried to use CFS for encrypted backups to a Syquest drive. I cmkdir on
the syquest drive and then cattach to (say) /crypt/backup. Then cp -ax all
files into /crypt/backup.
After backing up about 1.0 Gig of data, the machine became very
unresponsive and a ps showed that cfsd wasn't releasing memory. I had
noticed during the backup that it would slowly increase in size:
USER PID %CPU %MEM SIZE RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND
root 326 14.0 80.3 71104 64224 ? S 17:39 120:54 /usr/local/sbin/cfsd
This was after the copy had completed and 12 hours had gone by.
Any thoughts or ideas?
- brett
