NFS becomes unresponsive after nfsd errors related to TCP shutting down socket
Issue
- After a few minutes of seeing errors about NFS scrolling on the console, the system becomes unresponsive
- Following error messages are observed on NFS client
kernel: nfs: server server.hostname not responding, still trying
kernel: nfs: server server.hostname OK
- And following error messages are observed on NFS server.
kernel: rpc-srv/tcp: nfsd: got error -104 when sending 140 bytes - shutting down socket
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 with RPM
nfs-utils
older than 1.0.9-47. - Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and higher
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