Long delay after issuing commands at prompt

boshane · 2009-01-26 04:01:58

This has only begun recently, so I assume I've done something wrong but I havn't tinkered that much, so I can't really retrace my steps.

At the prompt when I type in certain commands there is a very long delay (10-30 seconds) to load certain things. startx is one of them, emacs and firefox are others.

There isn't really anything else to say, there isn't any error messages or anything so I really have no idea how to locate the problem. It also occurs outside of a prompt, for instance when using xbindkeys.

After they've been loaded once they load quickly but it's really annoying after I reboot.

Any clues?

Lexion · 2009-01-27 02:58:37

I find that there is a small delay normally with those programs, I'm not sure if that's what you mean.
Could you post the contents of /var/log/errors.log and the output of dmesg. Also you might check the CPU
usage when they open.

fwojciec · 2009-01-27 03:06:17

What's in your /etc/hosts file? Do you have your computer's hostname specified there?

boshane · 2009-01-27 23:30:33

Thanks guys, turned out my hosts file was the culprit.

Arch Linux

#1 2009-01-26 04:01:58

Long delay after issuing commands at prompt

#2 2009-01-27 02:58:37

Re: Long delay after issuing commands at prompt

#3 2009-01-27 03:06:17

Re: Long delay after issuing commands at prompt

#4 2009-01-27 23:30:33

Re: Long delay after issuing commands at prompt

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