> there has been a very, very great deal of improvement in the kernel's > MM and NFS since 7.3 was released. you should consider getting/running > 2.4.19-rc3. In a possibly related issue, do you have enough nfsd daemons running? Check /etc/init.d/nfs... this fixed it for me on an older version: # Number of servers to be started by default RPCNFSDCOUNT=36