>So what should I be asking my vps provider? Is this some network issue?
Almost certainly "yes". If I had to guess I would think it was a DNS timeout on something somewhere. But unfortunately these system call traces are not very helpful. This is because you are tracing the command "command", and all that shows is you execute a nmh command and it waits 5 seconds for it to complete. If this happens in the future you should probably use the -f option to trace all children of the specified process/command, and the -t option to print the system call timestamps (that would let you see exactly where the delay is). I also like using -o to direct the trace output to a file rather than having it mixed in with the output of a process. --Ken -- nmh-workers https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers
