Am Dienstag 01 Januar 2008 20:48:16 schrieben Sie: > memory consuption of the client is largely governed by how the kernel > component shrinks the dcache. Every looked up dcache/inode entry holds a > malloc'ed structure, which is free'd only when the kernel shrinks its > dcache. and shrinking of dcache depends on the amount of RAM and a lot of > other factors. > > avati Avati, thanks for the information. BTW, do any recommendations exist about how much memory to put into clients and servers? I suppose, the more the better, to allow the kernel to have large buffer and cache spaces? Thanks again, Sascha