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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Xin Zhao <uszhaoxin@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: What's the NFS OOM problem?
Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2006 19:33:14 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <44D9496A.7040800@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4ae3c140608081524u4666fb7x741734908c35cfe6@mail.gmail.com>

Xin Zhao wrote:
> I often heard of the OOM probelm in NFS, but don't know what it is.
> Now I am developing a NFS based system and found my system memory
> (server side) is used too fast. I checked the code but didn't find
> memory leaking. So I suspect I run into OOM issue.
> 
> Can someone help me and give me a brief description on OOM issue?
> 
> Many many thanks!

What I suspect you're talking about has to do with a network client 
running out of memory and not being able to talk to the network.  The 
server isn't affected.

	-hpa

  reply	other threads:[~2006-08-09  2:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-08-08 22:24 What's the NFS OOM problem? Xin Zhao
2006-08-09  2:33 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2006-08-10  4:57 ` Willy Tarreau
2006-08-10 21:53   ` Grant Coady
2006-08-11  0:33   ` Neil Brown
2006-08-11  3:57     ` Willy Tarreau
2006-08-11  4:24       ` Neil Brown
2006-08-11  8:48     ` Peter Zijlstra
2006-08-14  2:03       ` Neil Brown
2006-08-15 18:24     ` Roger Heflin
2006-08-17  5:04       ` Neil Brown
2006-08-17 13:29         ` Roger Heflin

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