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From: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Subject: Re: What's the NFS OOM problem?
Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2006 14:24:41 +1000
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On Friday August 11, w@1wt.eu wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 11, 2006 at 10:33:32AM +1000, Neil Brown wrote:

> > We've had reports of OOM problems with NFS at SuSE.
> > The common factors seem to be lots of memory (6G+) and very large
> > files. 
> 
> Just out of curiosity, does it happen on 32bit or 64bit machines (or both) ?

Both.
If it was just 32bit I'd be blaming highmem in a flash. 
But it's not that easy :-(

NeilBrown