On Thursday August 10, w@xxxxxx 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. 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. NeilBrown - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
