getent randomly hangs when querying ldap server on RHEL 5
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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