Why do I see a large amount of .nfsXXXXX files on my NFS clients under NFS mounted directories?

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Issue

  • Why do I see a large amount of .nfsXXXXX files on my NFS clients under NFS mounted directories?
  • Why do the .nfsXXXXX files never get removed once an application stops running?

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux
  • NFS Client

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