NFS v3 client performance decreases drastically as number of CPU cores increase on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

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Issue

  • NFS v3 client performance decreases drastically as the number of CPU cores on the machine is increased.
  • Exponential slowdown of nfs when number of (simultaneous) processes reading/writing increase.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

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