Why service 'rpc.statd' throws error message "sm-notify Already notifying clients; Exiting!"?

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Issue

  • rpc.statd throws error message sm-notify Already notifying clients; Exiting!
  • Constantly writing thousands of messages to the /var/log/messages increases log file size.
  • Example of logs:
sm-notify[30601]: Version 1.2.3 starting
sm-notify[30605]: Version 1.2.3 starting
sm-notify[30601]: Already notifying clients; Exiting!
sm-notify[30605]: Already notifying clients; Exiting!
sm-notify[30607]: Version 1.2.3 starting
sm-notify[30607]: Already notifying clients; Exiting!

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  • rpc.statd

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