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[Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Michal - Thanks for looking into this.  If we aren't receiving valid
answers to the interactive prompts, why do we keep allocating more and
more memory?  It sounds to me like we may have a memory leak in the
decision graph code.  Do you agree?

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mount.ecryptfs takes up enormous amounts of memory when mounting
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/371587
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Status in “ecryptfs-utils” source package in Ubuntu: Confirmed

Bug description:
Binary package hint: ecryptfs-utils

I have a large (>30 GB) ecryptfs partition that I do backups onto. When I mount it, mount.ecryptfs starts eating my memory at an alarming rate. I usually end up doing killall -9 mount.ecryptfs when this happens, and the partition seems to have mounted fine.

This is Ubuntu 9.04 with ecryptfs-utils 73-0ubuntu6.