[ale] Long lag for command line

[Alex Carver]

On 6/29/2013 04:41, Mike Harrison wrote:
> 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.

Didn't see anything in dmesg, either, though I'll dig through again just 
in case I missed a one-liner.

"Remote" is a bit of a stretch in this case.  The computer with the ssh 
terminal is sitting directly above the one having trouble and both are 
cabled into the same switch.  :)  I just called it "remote" because I'm 
not using the console or a DE on the troubled machine.