NFS mount freezes occasionally on NFSv4 clients in RHEL 4.5 with the message "kernel: RPC: rpciod waiting on sync task!"

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Issue

  • NFS mount freezes
  • The following error is observed in the /var/log/messages on the clients.

     kernel: RPC: rpciod waiting on sync task! 
    

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.5

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