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Date:      Thu, 16 Aug 2001 16:02:03 -0500
From:      Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org>
To:        Darryl Okahata <darrylo@soco.agilent.com>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: secure Filesystem
Message-ID:  <20010816160203.N38066@elvis.mu.org>
In-Reply-To: <200108162048.NAA04057@mina.soco.agilent.com>; from darrylo@soco.agilent.com on Thu, Aug 16, 2001 at 01:48:50PM -0700
References:  <20010816150950.M38066@elvis.mu.org> <200108162048.NAA04057@mina.soco.agilent.com>

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* Darryl Okahata <darrylo@soco.agilent.com> [010816 15:49] wrote:
> Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org> 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.

That's unfortunate.  Good thing is that cfs is open source.
"Got Patches" ? :)

-- 
-Alfred Perlstein [alfred@freebsd.org]
Ok, who wrote this damn function called '??'?
And why do my programs keep crashing in it?

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