We've seen the same issue on Red Hat Linux x86, and it came down to the default pam authorization code. Go into /etc/pam.d and comment out the first three "auth" lines. rlogin's will go much faster. Do the same sort of thing for ftp if that's an issue.
- Scott ----------------------------- Scott Hankin | In the beginning, there was nothing, then Rational Software | God said, "Let there be light." And there 20 Maguire Road | was light. There was still nothing, but Lexington, MA 02421 | you could see it a lot better. On Thursday, April 11, 2002, at 11:10 AM, p43cibmgs-Arden wrote: > We have several Suse systems running 2.2.16 GA and have been up > for 18-20 months > now. We are looking at both Suse and Redhat for upgrading to the > 2.4 kernel. We > just installed an RH 7.2 system (kernel 2.4.9-17). > > Once logged in, performance seems pretty much the same on both RH > and Suse > systems, but the login process is essentially instantaneous on > Suse and about > 2-4 minutes on RH. This seems to be true for all network related > processes (ftp > out of RH sits for 2-3 minutes before I get a login prompt on the > target system. > Suse ftp to the same system take 1-2 seconds to get a prompt). > > So I guess my guestion is: Does anyone have any ideas on what may > be causing > severe login process performance problems? > > The HW is an older G5, which may be the source of other issues, > but that isn't > something I can solve on the forum. > > RH was installed without a firewall. That's not the way I want to > keep things, > but it made it quicker for now since I didn't have to spend hours > in the RH > books figuring out how to get telnet, etc. re-enabled before > trying the system. > > Any help greatly appreciated. > > > Steve Arden > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > IBM-Global Services @ Lucent > (630)979-7124
