Why does my NFS share hang during data transfers? The TIBCO application then prints the error message: 'Unable to open store file ... file may be locked'

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Issue

  • Periodically, the NFS share becomes hung and the following error messages appear in the TIBCO application logs:
2013-06-30 03:21:15.014 ERROR: Unable to open store file '/opt/tibco/data/cfg/COMM_
 26884/datastore/async-msgs.db', file may be locked.
 2013-06-30 03:21:15.014 ERROR: Unable to open store file '/opt/tibco/data/cfg/COMM_26884/datastore/async-msgs.db', file may be locked.
 2013-06-30 03:21:15.015 ERROR: Unable to open store file '/opt/tibco/data/cfg/COMM_26884/datastore/meta.db', file may be locked.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.1
  • kernel 2.6.32-131.17.1.el6.x86_64
  • TIBCO Enterprise Message Service (EMS)
  • NFSv3 mount

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