Description of problem: Based on several customer reported issues and during qe testing, we found that the nfs-ganesha process consumes a lot of memory and can ultimately result in OOM kill issue, depending on the workload. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): nfs-ganesha-2.3.1-7 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Running higher workloads could result in OOM kill of nfs-ganesha process. Actual results: Higher memory consumption by nfs-ganesha process and possible OOM kill. Expected results: Additional info: The earlier tracking issue for this problem was (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1240172) which was contradicting with the title of that bug, so this new bug has been created to track the specific problem of ganesha memory consumption.