Re: Big bad NFS directories in 2.0.xx
Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Fri, 5 Jun 1998 11:10:56 +0100 (BST)
> thing, but sometimes it happens.) If this directory is NFS mounted on my
> Linux box, and I do an ls of it, ls eats up a huge amount of memory. In
> my case my machine is an alpha with 256 MB of RAM and another 256 of
> swap. So, 512 MB gets eaten up and the machine goes south. Therefore, I
> know it used up at least 512 MB. This is a pretty easy fault for an end
> user to cause.
What is eating it - the kernel or user space. I've got 1000+ file
directories I regulary use over NFS on 8 and 16Mbyte PC's.
Alan
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