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FromNeil Brown <>
DateThu, 17 Aug 2006 15:04:29 +1000
SubjectRe: What's the NFS OOM problem?
On Tuesday August 15, rheflin@atipa.com wrote:
> 
> I have noticed on SLES kernels that when the dirty_*ratios turned down it
> still uses alot more memory than it should work writeback buffers, it makes
> me think that with the default setting of 40% that it for some reason
> may be using all of memory and deadlocking.   It does not seem like an
> NFS only issue, as I believe I have duplicated it with a fast lock
> setup.

We seem to have a little patch in SuSE kernels that might be making
the problem worse .... though I presume it was introduced for a
reason.  I haven't managed to track what that reason was yet.
What is "a fast lock setup"??  I don't understand.

NeilBrown
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