getent randomly hangs when querying ldap server on RHEL 5

Solution Unverified - Updated -

Issue

On running:

for i in {1..500}; do 
echo $i; time getent group | wc -l; 
done;

getent appears to hang randomly

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3
  • LDAP

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