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
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