nfsd: too many open connections, consider increasing the number of threads

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Issue

  • The following errors appear in dmesg:
[2109289.499488] nfsd: too many open connections, consider increasing the number of threads
[2109289.519607] nfsd: too many open connections, consider increasing the number of threads
[2109289.536509] nfsd: too many open connections, consider increasing the number of threads
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[2109289.682972] nfsd: too many open connections, consider increasing the number of threads
[2109289.703396] nfsd: too many open connections, consider increasing the number of threads
[2109289.706761] nfsd: too many open connections, consider increasing the number of threads

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
  • RHEL NFS server

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