Sounds like it could be DNS as well. Slow DNS resolution will give the
appearance of slow internet and may give slow startup on ... xterm,
konsole and the like, since you can't run bash before one of those start
up.
I have found iftop to a great debugger on network
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On Tue, 12 Feb 2008, Matthew Rogers wrote:
> sar 5 5
>
> will give all sort of information. Sounds like you are rooted and have
> become a spam bot. Do a netstat and see how many out going connections you
> have going at once. netstat -ta.
>
> Eben King wrote:
>> Something's using up CPU time on my machine, but nothing shows in top nor
>> gkrellm's strip charts, nor does any unusual network use show up in
>> gkrellm. But bash and trn take seconds to start and exit, and the CPU speed
>> is a constant 2.4G (normally it falls back when nothing's happening). How
>> can I find out what it is? I can get network bandwidth from the
>> internet-facing router for everyone combined (which is mostly me), for
>> periods from 1m - 5h.
>>
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