From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Xin Zhao" Subject: What's the NFS OOM problem? Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2006 18:24:47 -0400 Message-ID: <4ae3c140608081524u4666fb7x741734908c35cfe6@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from py-out-1112.google.com ([64.233.166.177]:26471 "EHLO py-out-1112.google.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030319AbWHHWYs (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Aug 2006 18:24:48 -0400 Received: by py-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id o67so43856pye for ; Tue, 08 Aug 2006 15:24:47 -0700 (PDT) To: linux-kernel Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org 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! -x