NFSv3 locking takes a long time to complete or does not function at all on Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Issue
- NFSv3 lock requests take a long time to complete or do not complete at all on a Red Hat Enterprise Linux NFS client.
- The following messages may appear in
/var/log/messages
:
lockd: server server.example.com not responding, still trying
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
- NFSv3
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