Ara.T.Howard / noaa.gov wrote: > i have an application which does alot of byte range locking on an nfs > mounted file. twice now, i've seen a 'dead' lock appear on our nfs > server - a lock held by a non-existent pid. none of the processes in > question have been dying When you figure it out, could you post a followup here? Sounds like something it'd be useful to know about. martin