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+[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]]
+
+[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable
+id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
+document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or
+any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant
+Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license
+is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation
+License|/fdl]]."]]"""]]
+
+[[!tag open_issue_documentation]]
+
+This is not at all specific to ext2fs, so should be integrated elsewhere.
+
+
+# IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2012-04-22
+
+ <Tekk_> is there any particular reason ext2fs takes so much memory?
+ <Tekk_> it beats everything on my system hands down at 100 MB
+ <youpi> ext2fs contains the page cache
+ <youpi> so it's no wonder it takes memory
+ <youpi> it's all the mapped files
+ <Tekk_> any way I can cut down on that?
+ <Tekk_> my system only has 512 meg :/
+ <youpi> gnumach is supposed to automatically cut it down as needed
+ <youpi> what is the actual symptom that you see?
+ <Tekk_> youpi: 360 MB of memory usage when I'm doing nothing
+ <Tekk_> oh, is it just intelligent enough to cut down when I'm using more
+ memory?
+ <youpi> Tekk_: yes
+ <Tekk_> awesome. I was worried :)