From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Aug 20 8:49:15 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from msgbas1t.cos.agilent.com (msgbas1tx.cos.agilent.com [192.6.9.34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A73137B408; Mon, 20 Aug 2001 08:48:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from darrylo@soco.agilent.com) Received: from msgrel1.cos.agilent.com (msgrel1.cos.agilent.com [130.29.152.77]) by msgbas1t.cos.agilent.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 54852A55; Mon, 20 Aug 2001 09:48:58 -0600 (MDT) Received: from mina.soco.agilent.com (mina.soco.agilent.com [141.121.54.157]) by msgrel1.cos.agilent.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE0E487A; Mon, 20 Aug 2001 09:48:57 -0600 (MDT) Received: from mina.soco.agilent.com (darrylo@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mina.soco.agilent.com (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3 SMKit7.1.1_Agilent) with ESMTP id IAA29694; Mon, 20 Aug 2001 08:48:57 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200108201548.IAA29694@mina.soco.agilent.com> To: Mike Smith Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: secure Filesystem Reply-To: Darryl Okahata In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 18 Aug 2001 14:48:19 PDT." <200108182148.f7ILmJS01950@mass.dis.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 1.6) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 08:48:57 -0700 From: Darryl Okahata Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mike Smith 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 .... -- Darryl Okahata darrylo@soco.agilent.com DISCLAIMER: this message is the author's personal opinion and does not constitute the support, opinion, or policy of Agilent Technologies, or of the little green men that have been following him all day. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message