slow login & su to root

[mazdaracer]

Looked for postfix, but not there. BTW, even a ps -aux seems to take at
least 30 sec before it spits out anything! I'd send output, but I'm in
Dallas and won't be back to my computer for several weeks.

I ran 'gtop' while I was doing an su, but couldn't see anything pop up
that was too unusual. Altho I did see /usr/bin/python creep up but not
that it seemed out of place as far as I could tell.



Bryce C wrote:
> 
> When I was running my SMTP on my main server, the load average was
> throught the roof.  Try running that on another computer if needed.
> Try stopping with /etc/init.d/postfix stop
> The try logging on.
> 
> On Sat, 2002-10-19 at 15:19, mazdaracer wrote:
> > My AMD 500, RH7.3 system seems to be slow when comparing it to my
> > laptop's 7.3 operation. On the AMD, once the password is in, it may take
> > 30 sec or more beforeit starts up. I also see this when I su to root
> > from a terminal window. This is a server machine and I've loaded nearly
> > all of the stuff from the 3 CD's on it.
> >
> > I didn't have this much of a delay when I had the Mandrake 8.1 distro on
> > it. I switched because I like the RH version better, maybe I shouldn't
> > have.
> >
> > Just wonder if anyone has any ideas.
> >
> > The laptop just has a workstation install, so perhaps that's part of it.
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