linux-kernel - Re: What's the NFS OOM problem?

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Message-ID: <44D9496A.7040800@zytor.com>
Date:	Tue, 08 Aug 2006 19:33:14 -0700
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Xin Zhao <uszhaoxin@...il.com>
CC:	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: What's the NFS OOM problem?

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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