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.
-- mount.ecryptfs takes up enormous amounts of memory when mounting https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/371587 You received this bug notification because you are a member of eCryptfs, which is subscribed to ecryptfs-utils in ubuntu. 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. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ecryptfs Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ecryptfs More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
