# NFS mounts hang forever

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**Category:** Rocky Linux Help & Support\
**Created:** [October 24, 2024, 1:17pm UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/nfs-mounts-hang-forever/16329 "2024-10-24T13:17:57Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 28, 2024, 2:59pm UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/nfs-mounts-hang-forever/16329/15 "2024-10-28T14:59:51Z")

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> That made a huge difference. With 32GB I saw a lot of swapping, which I don’t see anymore. It was particularly problematic that those ~60 GB of data are saved in nightly backups, which regularly ran until afternoon.

If you saw a lot of swapping with 32GB, then NFSv4 may have been hitting the concurrent session limits due to insufficient memory.

> The server has 2 AMD EPYC 7252 8-Core processors.

Could be relevant as well. Another Rocky user complained of high memory usage on idle workloads, and apparently traced it to use of AMD EPYC. See [Rocky Linux 8 6 GB memory in noncache used by kernel - #7 by fkaluza](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/rocky-linux-8-6-gb-memory-in-noncache-used-by-kernel/16260/7)

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