Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030425AbWHICdT (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Aug 2006 22:33:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030424AbWHICdS (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Aug 2006 22:33:18 -0400 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 Message-ID: <44D9496A.7040800@zytor.com> Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2006 19:33:14 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (X11/20060614) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Xin Zhao CC: linux-kernel , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: What's the NFS OOM problem? References: <4ae3c140608081524u4666fb7x741734908c35cfe6@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4ae3c140608081524u4666fb7x741734908c35cfe6@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 785 Lines: 20 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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/