I believe the problem is that 'idle cycle count' is reset due to some loop problem where encfs itself acceses the filesystem repeatedly without end, thus causing the usage to reset once a second or more.
u...@machine:~$ cat bug268557.log | grep -i idle 12:05:13 (main.cpp:437) starting idle monitoring thread 12:05:13 (main.cpp:704) idle cycle count: 1, timeout after 60 12:05:23 (main.cpp:704) idle cycle count: 0, timeout after 60 12:05:33 (main.cpp:704) idle cycle count: 0, timeout after 60 12:05:43 (main.cpp:704) idle cycle count: 0, timeout after 60 12:05:48 (main.cpp:471) joining with idle monitoring thread 12:05:48 (main.cpp:717) Idle monitoring thread exiting It loops like this ad infinitum 12:05:45 (Context.cpp:119) no node found for / 12:05:45 (MACFileIO.cpp:68) fs block size = 1024, macBytes = 8, randBytes = 0 12:05:45 (FileNode.cpp:140) calling setIV on (null) 12:05:45 (DirNode.cpp:736) created FileNode for /home/user/.encdir/ 12:05:45 (encfs.cpp:133) getattr /home/user/.encdir/ 12:05:46 (encfs.cpp:684) doing statfs of /home/user/.encdir 12:05:46 (encfs.cpp:684) doing statfs of /home/user/.encdir ** Attachment added: "log demonstrating the loop which resets idle counter" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/28420520/bug268557.log -- EncFS idle feature not working https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/268557 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs -- universe-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/universe-bugs
