Frank, Malahal Thanks for responding....i tried testing the same use case with older stable versions. Till v2.5 stable ganesha, it worked fine. But from v2.6Stable - it was not hang but became very slow after some point of time and eventually it exited. In the logs i see checksum failures in rpc process request. **************************** 09/10/2020 T08:22:17.567082-0700 17095[none] [svc_913] 769 :nfs_rpc_process_request :SVCAUTH_CHECKSUM failed for Program 100003, Version 4, Function 1, xid=3473413753, SVCXPRT=0x7f8924101d00, fd=26 09/10/2020 T08:22:17.660648-0700 17095[none] [svc_917] 769 :nfs_rpc_process_request :SVCAUTH_CHECKSUM failed for Program 100003, Version 4, Function 1, xid=3540522617, SVCXPRT=0x7f8924101d00, fd=26 **************************** Let me know if you need any other info -