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On Fri, Aug 11, 2006 at 10:33:32AM +1000, Neil Brown wrote: > 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. Just out of curiosity, does it happen on 32bit or 64bit machines (or both) ? > 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. The most important is to be aware of it ;-) > NeilBrown Thanks for the info, Willy - 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/ | ||||||||||||
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