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Originally Posted by 7Finger
Got a few servers with this problem. They are VMs running Red Hat 5.11.
When extracting a large file to an NFS mounted drive it locks up and has errors in the messages file stating that a process has stopped responding. I can't kill the process and the only way to recover is to reboot. Oddly, when I decrease the memory from 6G to 4G, the extraction works just fine. I'm sure it has something to do with how it is caching in memory as it extracts the file, but I don't want to have to decrease the memory every time I need to do a software upgrade.
Does anyone know what settings I would need to change to fix this?
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5.11 is a bit old...do you have the latest updates applied from Red Hat, and are you PAYING FOR RHEL? There were issues noted with NFS on RHEL 5.x, that were patched by RH. What version of NFS are you running on your NFS server and client?
Honestly, I've seen this problem before, and I never really came up with a decent 'fix' for it, but it's been a while since I've used RHEL 5. I worked around it by extracting to a local drive, then moving the file, which seemed to work.
