From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750924AbVK3VmR (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Nov 2005 16:42:17 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750915AbVK3VmR (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Nov 2005 16:42:17 -0500 Received: from zproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.162.194]:19096 "EHLO zproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750922AbVK3VmR convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Nov 2005 16:42:17 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=GHEg2xqAw5wIwwERaD11LH+NTBlWrVTyAtSvw7Ccrs/GEtV1J3gUxONic8D9qTnw4Q9L6qnCpnUUnSAals9Pq1X5GH8Fs40w920i/+yDmdJTUZMOJ8Hbv4zw6ZcC60Ag/kx63LWST3wCe9ZtiZbbHmj1Qv9PDnIJegni+ofgLMc= Message-ID: Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 13:42:16 -0800 From: Keith Mannthey To: Kenny Simpson Subject: Re: nfs unhappiness with memory pressure Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20051130200448.76281.qmail@web34103.mail.mud.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Content-Disposition: inline References: <1132620540.8011.58.camel@lade.trondhjem.org> <20051130200448.76281.qmail@web34103.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org You are still reporing free pages. Do you seen the OOM killer killing processes? How big is the file you are doing your test on? How big is your filesize var when the box hangs? If you run this test without nfs (on a local file system) do you end up in this low memory state as well or only over a nfs mount? thanks, Keith