fuse-zip consumes over 500 megabytes of RAM when writing 600MB of data

Originally reported on Google Code with ID 17

As reported in issue #7 (http://code.google.com/p/fuse-zip/issues/detail?id=7):

> $ mkdir test
> $ ./fuse-zip test.zip test
> $ tar xjf /var/tmp/emerge-webrsync/portage-20080627.tar.bz2 -C test
> $ top -p 7053
>   PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND      
>                                      
>  7053 daraku    20   0  534m 520m  812 S  0.0 51.9   0:44.86 fuse-zip

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> > The second problem of this issue is a memory usage. Because I'm trying
to save about 600MB of data to fuse-zip file system and file system doesn't
save data on-line, so all 600MB stored into memory :( Shall I open a new
issue for fuse-zip, or this is issue of libzip/fuse?

> I know about this issue.

Reported by Tyson.Clugg on 2009-03-10 22:44:55

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