Ok, Ok, it's an old GNU/Linux kernel(2.4.20), but it was working pretty well for years! Just strong as a rock. Now, after seeing the message: nfsd: accept failed (err 22)! in the logs, some clients start to behave very bad (slow)... most some rhel tcp clients! I think that can be a "tcp" problem, maybe some problem in the network. Looking the code: ... if (tcpflag && FD_ISSET(tcpsock, ready)) { len = sizeof(inetpeer); if ((msgsock = accept(tcpsock, (struct sockaddr *)&inetpeer, &len)) < 0) { syslog(LOG_ERR, "accept failed: %m"); return (1); ... Seems like after restart the server, everything goes fine. I just want to ask you the following: 1) Am i right, that is a problem with the "tcp" connections? 2) it's a bug in the NFS server (probably solved in newer versions), or it's a network problem? 3) It's a network problem? 4) may be a client (rhel) problem? ps.: Many clients stil working pretty well, just some clients show the slow behavior. Thanks a lot for your time! Leal. -- pOSix rules -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html