* Darryl Okahata <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010816 15:49] wrote:
> Alfred Perlstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 [[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Ok, who wrote this damn function called '??'?
And why do my programs keep crashing in it?
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