automounter (autofs) consuming high memory

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • automounter (autofs) consuming high memory

  • PID  USER  PR NI VIRT   RES  SHR  S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
    4933 root  15 0  4789m 4.5g  1892 S  9.9 14.5  18:00.08 automount

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4
  • autofs-5.0.1-0.rc2.131.el5

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