Any news on this? We're experiencing exactly the same problems as described by 
Peter, except that the workaround doesn't work for us.
We have a lot of Ubuntu 10.04 LTS clients running with /home mounted through 
NFSv4, with a Debian 6.0 server. We also had a single test machine running 
12.04 for several months now without problems. Last friday, I upgraded a second 
machine and the described problems began. 
We also had a server crash on friday, where I'm not sure whether it is related. 
The server stopped with "Out of memory and no killable processes left." 
Apparently, it started killing processes to free up memory. The logs say it was 
due to imapd claiming more memory, but that could well be wrong. What we also 
see on the server is that two out of four rpciod kernel threads are stuck in 
the 'D' state, which apparently also causes a permanent load level of at least 
2.0. It doesn't seem to have any real performance impact, though. These stuck 
threads are obviously resolved when you reboot the server, but return as soon 
as you fire up the 12.04 boxes.
We already had network cards configured by /etc/network/interfaces, so Peters 
workaround doesn't work for us. I have now removed the /home line from fstab 
and instead mount /home manually on these two boxes. The clientaddr field is 
now correct (was 0.0.0.0 before), and everything seems to work now.
That is still something that needs to be resolved quickly. I suspect there are 
some protocol incompatibilities here; we already went back on the server from 
kernel 3.2.0 (from Debian backports) to the official sqeeze kernel 2.6.32 
because we had problems with ever increasing load on the server. Maybe going 
again to 3.2.0 on the server would help now, since both client and server would 
then be running the same kernel version again. But I cannot upgrade all boxes 
to 12.04 beforehand just to test. I will try and set up a test environment and 
post the results.

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