nfs When Your NFS Server Eats Itself: Diagnosing a Load Average of 215 on a 20-Core Machine
TL;DR — A Kubernetes node running an NFS server that also consumed its own NFS exports hit memory pressure, causing swap thrashing that starved the NFS daemon. The result: a self-referencing deadlock, 30+ processes stuck in uninterruptible sleep, a runaway cron job spawning 1,172 zombie processes, a