Why is portmap using more than 100% of CPU in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 ?

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Issue

  • Why is portmap using more than 100% of CPU in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 ?

  • Out put of top command provides :

PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
6856 rpc       25   0  9884 2444  476 S 100.2  0.0  10704:21 portmap

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4
  • Windows 7 Client

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