<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000'><div>Is your user account local--i.e. in /etc/passwd? <span style="font-size: 12pt;">Not lately, but in the past I've experienced this behavior when there was a problem with our LDAP server. I think there was some timeout going on before it reverted to cached values. Could be any number of things I suppose, but that could be one to check out. Do you have the same trouble if you login as root?</span></div><div><br></div><div>Scott</div><br><hr id="zwchr"><div style="color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;"><b>From: </b>"Alex Carver" <agcarver+ale@acarver.net><br><b>To: </b>"Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts" <ale@ale.org><br><b>Sent: </b>Friday, June 28, 2013 6:56:50 PM<br><b>Subject: </b>[ale] Long lag for command line<br><br>Anyone ever experience long lags for simple things at the command line? <br> Right now I've got a Debian system that had been working fine but for <br>some reason now it takes it a few seconds to do something simple like <br>open vi or cat a file -- not even big files, just a few kilobytes or <br>less. The load average is 1.5 but top doesn't show anything really <br>hitting the CPU. No cron jobs running at the time, the machine is <br>mostly quiet. It just handles a few internal activities for me <br>(internal web server, place to compile little things, etc).<br>_______________________________________________<br>Ale mailing list<br>Ale@ale.org<br>http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale<br>See JOBS, ANNOUNCE and SCHOOLS lists at<br>http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo<br></div><br></div></body></html>