From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "H. Peter Anvin" Subject: Re: What's the NFS OOM problem? Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2006 19:33:14 -0700 Message-ID: <44D9496A.7040800@zytor.com> References: <4ae3c140608081524u4666fb7x741734908c35cfe6@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: linux-kernel , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([192.83.249.54]:55209 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030420AbWHICdS (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Aug 2006 22:33:18 -0400 To: Xin Zhao In-Reply-To: <4ae3c140608081524u4666fb7x741734908c35cfe6@mail.gmail.com> Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org 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