[ale] Long lag for command line

[Dustin Strickland]

Do you experience any lags while trying to open any programs outside of a
terminal emulator? What DE are you using? Does it happen only in the
terminal emulator, or does it lag in a tty terminal as well?


On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 7:47 PM, Alex Carver <agcarver+ale at acarver.net>wrote:

> On 6/28/2013 16:44, JD wrote:
>
>> 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?
>>
>
> I don't think so because it's happening even without using auto-complete.
>  For example, just at a simple terminal, I type "vi" and hit enter.  After
> about 10 or 15 seconds, vi finally shows up.  So I'm highly confused about
> what's going on.  Same thing for something like "ls", the actual directory
> listing shows up after about ten seconds and that's with a nearly empty
> directory (maybe 20 files total).  It's behaving like it's having to think
> about every command or send the command halfway around the globe to be
> processed.
>
>
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