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NFS client displays "NFS server not responding" in messages

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Applies to

  • NFS 
  • Data ONTAP

Issue

  • Poor performance without uncharacteristic latency reported in monitoring tools
  • NFS clients can hang when attempting to run I/O on the export.

Error:

A client system is experiencing NFS issues, as indicated by the following log entries:

[Tue Sep 9 12:42:38 2025] NFS: state manager: check lease failed on NFSv4 server <NFS_SERVER_IP> with error 10018  
[Tue Sep 9 12:43:14 2025] NFS: state manager: check lease failed on NFSv4 server <NFS_SERVER_IP> with error 10018  
[Tue Sep 9 11:48:06 2025] nfs: server <NFS_SERVER_IP> not responding, still trying  
[Tue Sep 9 11:48:07 2025] NFS: state manager: check lease failed on NFSv4 server <NFS_SERVER_IP> with error 10018

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