Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 13:48:50 -0700 From: Darryl Okahata <darrylo@soco.agilent.com> To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: secure Filesystem Message-ID: <200108162048.NAA04057@mina.soco.agilent.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 16 Aug 2001 15:09:50 CDT." <20010816150950.M38066@elvis.mu.org>
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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.
--
Darryl Okahata
darrylo@soco.agilent.com
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