Hi Neil, One more observation is that this only happens with NFS v3 and with NFS v4 hangs doesn't happens. linux-otlh:~ # mount -t nfs -o vers=3 10.0.0.216:/root/test-nfs /mnt/nfs/ linux-otlh:~ # mount|egrep nfs 10.0.0.216:/root/test-nfs on /mnt/nfs type nfs (rw,relatime,vers=3,rsize=524288,wsize=524288,namlen=255,hard,proto=tcp,timeo=600,retrans=2,sec=sys,mountaddr=10.0.0.216,mountvers=3,mountport=60245,mountproto=udp,local_lock=none,addr=10.0.0.216) linux-otlh:~ # linux-otlh:~ # linux-otlh:~ # date Sat May 20 17:27:38 EDT 2017 linux-otlh:~ # while sleep 302; do date; time df /mnt/nfs; date;done Sat May 20 17:32:44 EDT 2017 Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on 10.0.0.216:/root/test-nfs 7061504 1963520 4732928 30% /mnt/nfs real 0m21.054s user 0m0.000s sys 0m0.000s Sat May 20 17:33:06 EDT 2017 Sat May 20 17:38:08 EDT 2017 Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on 10.0.0.216:/root/test-nfs 7061504 1963520 4732928 30% /mnt/nfs real 1m33.164s user 0m0.000s sys 0m0.000s Sat May 20 17:39:41 EDT 2017 Sat May 20 17:44:43 EDT 2017 Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on 10.0.0.216:/root/test-nfs 7061504 1963520 4732928 30% /mnt/nfs real 1m33.132s user 0m0.000s sys 0m0.000s Sat May 20 17:46:16 EDT 2017 Thank You, Manish