From: Nick Couchman Subject: Re: Root Over NFS Memory Problem Date: Thu, 04 Mar 2004 07:18:57 -0700 Sender: nfs-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: <1078409937.3882.10.camel@nick0.seakr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="=-JTf6cYKXbQ07712tBjZ9" Return-path: Received: from sc8-sf-mx2-b.sourceforge.net ([10.3.1.12] helo=sc8-sf-mx2.sourceforge.net) by sc8-sf-list2.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1Aytmh-00035e-VP for nfs@lists.sourceforge.net; Thu, 04 Mar 2004 06:25:12 -0800 Received: from gw2.seakr.com ([209.144.181.2] helo=mail-gw.seakr.com) by sc8-sf-mx2.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1AytN4-00021A-Dx for nfs@lists.sourceforge.net; Thu, 04 Mar 2004 05:58:42 -0800 Received: from scan-gw.seakr.com (seakr5.seakr.com [192.168.100.10]) by mail-gw.seakr.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i24EEW6a020285 for ; Thu, 4 Mar 2004 07:14:32 -0700 Received: from nick0.seakr.com (nick0 [192.168.10.70]) by seakr5.seakr.com (8.10.2/8.10.2) with ESMTP id i24EIwZ18198 for ; Thu, 4 Mar 2004 07:18:58 -0700 (MST) To: nfs@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: nfs-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Unsubscribe: , List-Id: Discussion of NFS under Linux development, interoperability, and testing. List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: --=-JTf6cYKXbQ07712tBjZ9 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > We are running currently 43 system over a nfs root filesystem and > none of those systems is suffering from such memory leak. So I > really don't think this is a vanilla kernel issue. If you are sure > that its the kernel, try without OpenMosix and other patches. > > Cheers, > Bernd Two things: 1) What version of the kernel are you running? 2) We have another Linux box running the same kernel, but it is not booting root-over-NFS, it is using the local hard drive. This machine does not "leak" memory. Other ideas? Could it be portmap? --Nick -- Nick Couchman Information Technology SEAKR Engineering, Inc. Phone: (303) 790-8499 Fax: (303) 790-8720 Web: http://www.seakr.com --=-JTf6cYKXbQ07712tBjZ9 Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > We are running currently 43 system over a nfs root filesystem and > none of those systems is suffering from such memory leak. So I > really don't think this is a vanilla kernel issue. If you are sure > that its the kernel, try without OpenMosix and other patches. > > Cheers, > Bernd Two things: 1) What version of the kernel are you running? 2) We have another Linux box running the same kernel, but it is not booting root-over-NFS, it is using the local hard drive. This machine does not "leak" memory. Other ideas? Could it be portmap? --Nick

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