Hello

I am having a problem with Java 1.6 with NFS mounted home
directories and I was wondering if anyone else has
seen the following behaviour.

Java 1.5 works fine but with Java 1.6 (e.g., java apps via the Web and
javaws with EVO) the application hangs and the nfs lockd on the
server is constantly receiving lock requests (although the requests
have been acknowledged).   This causes the rpc.lockd on the NFS
server to consume almost all CPU cycles 
(you can see this using TOP)  
and the NFS server eventually
crashes.

The NFS server is NOT linux...it is HP-UX.  HP support
has spent quite a bit of time looking at the network traces 
and has concluded that
the application (Java 1.6) on Linux is doing something wrong.

If I link the user's $HOME/.java to a directory on a local
disk, all works fine.

If I use Java 1.5 all works fine as well.

So...this might be a Java bug and/or and HP-UX NFS bug but
I was just wondering...

Has anyone else experienced this issue (with Linux based NFS servers) ?

Does anyone have any ideas on what might be happening and/or changed
from java 1.5 to java 1.6 ?

Thanks for any insight

Regards
Rochelle Lauer
Yale University