Messages in this thread | | | From | Neil Brown <> | Date | Fri, 11 Aug 2006 10:33:32 +1000 | Subject | Re: What's the NFS OOM problem? |
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On Thursday August 10, w@1wt.eu wrote: > > > Can someone help me and give me a brief description on OOM issue? > > I don't know about any OOM issue related to NFS. At most it might happen > on the client (eg: stating firefox from an NFS root) which might not have > enough memory for new network buffers, but I don't even know if it's > possible at all.
We've had reports of OOM problems with NFS at SuSE. The common factors seem to be lots of memory (6G+) and very large files. Tuning down /proc/sys/vm/dirty_*ratio seems to avoid the problem, but I'm not very close to understanding what the real problem is.
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