Severe system slowness when an NFS or CIFS directory is invalidated

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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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