Re: What's the NFS OOM problem?

[H. Peter Anvin]

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
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