[ale] Long lag for command line

[JD]

On 06/28/2013 06:56 PM, Alex Carver wrote:
> Anyone ever experience long lags for simple things at the command line?  Right
> now I've got a Debian system that had been working fine but for some reason now
> it takes it a few seconds to do something simple like open vi or cat a file --
> not even big files, just a few kilobytes or less.  The load average is 1.5 but
> top doesn't show anything really hitting the CPU.  No cron jobs running at the
> time, the machine is mostly quiet.  It just handles a few internal activities
> for me (internal web server, place to compile little things, etc).


Shot in the dark, but could there be conflicting bash-completion settings?
Anything funny in the logs?