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[Paul Fisher <pkfish@xxxxxxxx>]

I added verbosity=0 to the mount options and it now works flawlessly,
without allocating any extra memory, so at least there is a known
workaround.

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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.