NFS through SSH tunneling hangs after 5-10 days
Issue
- NFS access via ssh tunnelling hangs after 5-10 days and requires a reboot to fix
- Hang does not happen on all clients at once, only on individual clients
- On few servers, may notice "NFS not responding errors" prior to the issue, but not always
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 NFS server
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 NFS client
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