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Re: Memory usage on large encrypted volumes
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brett Eldridge)
Mon Jan 25 19:35:08 1999
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Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 12:02:13 -0800 (PST)
From: Brett Eldridge <beldridg@best.com>
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To: Matt Blaze <mab@research.att.com>
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Subject: Re: Memory usage on large encrypted volumes
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On Mon, 25 Jan 1999, Matt Blaze wrote:
> Yes, unfortunately CFS does badly with very large (in terms of
> number of files) file systems. This is because it keeps the
> inode table in memory, and has no way to garbage collect as long
Okay, now I understand.
> as a directory is attached (since you might reference a handle
> that was given out long ago).
So, if I cdetach the directory will cfsd release the memory?
> I've been re-working this for cfs 2.0, which will also incorporate
> a number of other nice things. Unfortunately, I've been very
> slow about getting this done.
No worries. What else is on the burner for 2.0?
- brett
