NSCD Leaking File Descriptors

Solution In Progress - Updated -

Issue

NSCD is pegged at 100% CPU usage, stracing the process shows "Too many open files" and netstat/lsof show close to 1000 open connections to /var/run/nscd/socket.

Environment

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.8

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