[ale] Long lag for command line

[Alex Carver]

Remote ssh connection (putty), no desktop environments.  It lags on the 
text console, too (local keyboard).

On 6/28/2013 17:01, Dustin Strickland wrote:
> 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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