Server exhibits extremely slow response time to commands

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Issue

A server suddenly begins to exhibit very slow response time to even ordinary shell commands. No changes to the server have been made. The server is running nscd which is configured to use an external LDAP server.

Environment

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

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