System hang during heavy NFS I/O on RHEL 4

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • System appeared hung
  • Apparently doing lots of I/O to NFS server, then writing local I/O

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 (RHEL 4)
  • Using the client system to copy large files on a trans-Atlantic NetApp filer from one directory  to another

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