automounter crashes with a segmentation fault on negative cache lookups when the system is under memory pressure in RHEL 5
Issue
- Automount may occasionally crash when it is loaded with a lot of negative cache lookups. This is more commonly seen when the system does not have much free memory left.
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5
autofs
prior toautofs-5.0.1-0.rc2.156.el5
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