NFSv3 client performance degrades after upgrading to RHEL 5.7

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • NFS client upgraded to RHEL 5.7
  • After the upgrade, whenever there is high amount of writes to NFS servers, the entire system locks up and is completely unresponsive.
  • Switching to NFSv2 and the problem does not happen.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.7

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