Autofs timeout?

[Craig White]

On Thu, 2008-08-14 at 16:40 +0300, Gilboa Davara wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I'm using autofs+nfs combo on all my workstations.
> These machine are also used for software testing and crash a -lot-.
> Problem is - both nfs and autofs are notorious for going zombie once the
> host server dies.
> 
> Any idea how I can get the nfs-client (and/or the autofs) to time-out
> gracefully / error out, when the nfs server dies instead of just hanging
> till the end of time?
----
what's the host server?  RHEL?  CentOS?

Is this your issue?
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=453094

Craig