Hi Friends, We are running some of the Centos 5 32 bit, 5.2 64-bit systems. These systems are ldap clients and the ldap server is Windows 2003 Server. Sometimes 1 or 2 services on these servers sucks 100% cpu and the load becomes high on the server. Below is an example where one the httpd process was eating 100% cpu and we took dump of this process gcore 17711 Core was generated by `/usr/sbin/httpd'. #0 0x00002ad1849cd997 in ldap_chase_v3referrals () from /usr/lib64/libldap-2.3.so.0 (gdb) bt full #0 0x00002ad1849cd997 in ldap_chase_v3referrals () from /usr/lib64/libldap-2.3.so.0 No symbol table info available. #1 0x00002ad1849bc4dd in ldap_msgdelete () from /usr/lib64/libldap-2.3.so.0 No symbol table info available. #2 0x00002ad1849bceb0 in ldap_result () from /usr/lib64/libldap-2.3.so.0 No symbol table info available. /etc/ldap.conf file host dc.example.com base ou=users,dc=example,dc=com binddn cn=ldap,ou=extra accounts,dc=example,dc=com bindpw QrQcepFKHR6wGNXu4 scope sub ssl no nss_base_passwd dc=example,dc=com?sub nss_base_shadow dc=example,dc=com?sub nss_base_group dc=example,dc=com?sub nss_map_objectclass posixAccount user nss_map_objectclass shadowAccount user nss_map_attribute uid sAMAccountName nss_map_attribute uidNumber UidNumber nss_map_attribute gidNumber GidNumber nss_map_attribute loginShell LoginShell nss_map_attribute gecos name nss_map_attribute userPassword unixUserPassword nss_map_attribute homeDirectory unixHomeDirectory nss_map_objectclass posixGroup Group nss_map_attribute uniqueMember msSFU30PosixMember nss_map_attribute cn cn pam_login_attribute sAMAccountName pam_filter objectclass=user pam_password md5 timelimit 0 sizelimit 0 tls_cacertdir /etc/openldap/cacerts There are 2 bugs listed on the redhat site but no solution for this problem has been provided. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=222667 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=474181 Thanks & Regards Ankush