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From: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
To: "chen, xiangping" <chen_xiangping@emc.com>
Cc: "'nfs-request@lists.sourceforge.net'" 
	<nfs-request@lists.sourceforge.net>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Questions on NFS client inode management.
Date: 11 Sep 2001 22:21:34 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <shsk7z5zdf5.fsf@charged.uio.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <276737EB1EC5D311AB950090273BEFDD043BC5A2@elway.lss.emc.com>
In-Reply-To: "chen, xiangping"'s message of "Tue, 11 Sep 2001 14:30:18 -0400"

>>>>> " " == xiangping chen <chen> writes:

     > Hi, I have a question on inode management for NFS client.  It
     > seems that the inodes created on a NFS client for a mounted nfs
     > file system stays around until the file being removed. Is there
     > any limits on how many inodes are allowed in memory for NFS? 
     > What kind of behavior we expect if a malicious/careless
     > application just keeps creating new files and flood the kernel
     > memory with inodes created?

The same behaviour as for local files: as memory goes low, the
ordinary reclaiming schemes kick in, and all should be hunky-dory. Of
course in the *real world*, ...

Cheers,
   Trond

  reply	other threads:[~2001-09-11 20:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-09-11 18:30 chen, xiangping
2001-09-11 20:21 ` Trond Myklebust [this message]
2001-09-11 21:25 chen, xiangping
2001-09-12  7:50 ` Trond Myklebust

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