From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Aug 16 13:48:59 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 58FB437B40D for ; Thu, 16 Aug 2001 13:48:53 -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 BB0F91187; Thu, 16 Aug 2001 14:48:52 -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 8B8EF4A2; Thu, 16 Aug 2001 14:48:51 -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 NAA04057; Thu, 16 Aug 2001 13:48:51 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200108162048.NAA04057@mina.soco.agilent.com> To: Alfred Perlstein Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: secure Filesystem Reply-To: Darryl Okahata In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 16 Aug 2001 15:09:50 CDT." <20010816150950.M38066@elvis.mu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 1.6) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 13:48:50 -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 Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > A bigger problem is that doing anything with a file uses up 1-2KB > > PER FILE. If you want to see cfsd grow *really big*, do a "find ." of > > any large cfs-controlled hierarchy with lots of files. I'd really like > > to put my MH mail messages under cfs, but I've got too many files (I > > can't afford having a 200+MB cfsd). > > This is what swap is for. :) > > If cfsd doesn't touch all that now unused memory it'll simply be > paged out and probably only paged in occasionally. Well, yes. ;-) However, on a somewhat aging 128MB laptop, a 200+MB cfsd puts the system into swap h*ll pretty quickly. I think cfsd has some linked lists which thrash a lot of pages. -- 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