[ale] Long lag for command line

[Mike Harrison]

On Sat, 29 Jun 2013, Alex Carver wrote:
> didn't crop up until recently (maybe four or five days ago) but the machine 
> had been running continuously without issue for about 50 days (would have

I'd start with dmesg - I've seen weird HD or other I/O errors cause 
similar issues and they showed up in 'dmesg'

And stupid things: If this system is remote, run MTR/traceroute
to it, it might not be a machine issue, but a connection to it issue.