Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 08:48:57 -0700 From: Darryl Okahata <darrylo@soco.agilent.com> To: Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: secure Filesystem Message-ID: <200108201548.IAA29694@mina.soco.agilent.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 18 Aug 2001 14:48:19 PDT." <200108182148.f7ILmJS01950@mass.dis.org>
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Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG> wrote:
> > The memory is not freed until you unmount (and then, the memory is
> > only free'd for use by other cfs mounts -- the process size does not, of
> > course, shrink).
>
> It doesn't? Does it just use malloc for these structs? When you say "of
> course", you kinda imply you're thinking of the "bad old" malloc
> behaviour...
While it uses malloc(), memory seems to be fragmented such that the
process doesn't shrink (or doesn't shrink much -- memory leak,
perhaps?). I haven't looked into exactly why, and was largely lamenting
the insult after injury ....
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Darryl Okahata
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