Re: [Iscsitarget-devel] a question about max_cmd_sn

[spren <sp...@16...>]

>Good observation, and yes, you are correct, the current behavior
>gives a limitless command buffer, which can put memory pressure
>on the kernel, but we usually see the pressure more on the disk
>subsystem where frequent SCSI timeouts start occurring and then
>frequent cmnd_aborts start occurring.
>
>I have a fix for this, but it wasn't committed to 1.4 it will
>most likely appear in 1.5 along with several other big fixes,
>(proper tagged command queuing, PGRs, to name a few).
>
>If you are experiencing these issues let me know and I can
>provide a patch to test out to see if it fixes things for
>you.
>
Thanks for your reply. In fact we are experiencing OOM occasionally, but we are not sure 
about the reason, because the system has other modules added in  recently which are not stable, 
and when looking into the iet source i get the above question. we can wait for the next release:) Thanks again.

spren