Severe system slowness when an NFS or CIFS directory is invalidated
Issue
- Severe slowness to the point of appearing hung after failover event with clustered Windows share
- Very slow system behavior with NFS after attempt to access no longer existing directory
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
- NFS or CIFS filesystem
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