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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!swiss.ans.net!solaris.cc.vt.edu!news.duke.edu!godot.cc.duq.edu!toads.pgh.pa.us!w2xo!durham From: durham@w2xo.pgh.pa.us (James C. Durham) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: FreeBSD 1.1.5.1 Long log-in times Keywords: FreeBSD Log ins Message-ID: <31@w2xo.pgh.pa.us> Date: 7 Oct 94 03:08:16 GMT Organization: Jims Basement, Gibsonia,PA Lines: 40 Here's a wierd one. Did anyone in this group ever notice that log-in times get insanely long sometimes on FreeBSD 1.1.5.1 ? It only happens with tcsh or csh, not sh or ksh. Sourcing the .cshrc and .login files takes only a few seconds, so it's not anything in them. I have tried to do a 'ps' from another virtual terminal while the machine is "thinking" and don't see anything at all unusual. It has *some* relation to system load, I think, but I haven't been able to see that absolutely. I think it may occur when a lot of processes are running, but they may be in a blocked state waiting on tty input. This seemed to be the case at least twice when the problem occured. Rebooting fixes the problem for a while. It has taken as long as 40 seconds sometimes to get logged in. It also can take a long time to 'su' from a user to root (if root is running csh or tcsh). Oh, yes, it also takes a long time to 'logout' or even 'exit' from an 'su' back to user level. After the log in, the system is fully responsive, not sluggish at all... This is a '386-25 with 8 megs and a 340 meg IDE. I have a '386-40 with 4 megs at work and it never exhibits this phenominum, even when unbatching lots of news. One more thing, I'm *not* running the nameserver stuff.. Any ideas? PS.. I never received any replies to an earlier query concerning drq time-outs on the IDE drive. Still get them occasionally. Any comments on this would be appreciated. -Jim Durham