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
next prev parent 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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