Why does umount hang for 2-3 seconds on an NFS filesystem?

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Issue

  • The server keeps freezing for 2 - 3 seconds when an automounted filesystem is expired and is unmounted.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 4

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