On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 07:22:31AM -0500, Vikas Gorur wrote: > > So there is a timeout, but whatever the cause is, it's triggered by > > long term inactivity. We never had any network problems. > > > > Other machines that access the filesystem on a regular basis do not > > show this problem. It's only the machine that get's used once in a while. > > The problem is reproducable, not a one time event. > > Thanks everyone for the reports. We will try to reproduce this and resolve > the issue. Perhaps adding SO_KEEPALIVE may help maintain the socket connection in the event that there's some form of tcp session timeout happening on the network and/or router (such as in the case of NAT)? Just a thought. Mohan