Thanks Chris. Yes, the bash_profile is stock, but I'll try strace and give that a shot as well. Someone also suggested I see if there's an issue with DNS so I'll also look into that.
On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 1:07 PM, Christopher Tooley <[email protected]> wrote: > I can see from your original email that I missed the > "(and/or any other terminals I'm using, for example SSH from another machine)" > part. :\ Derp on my part! > > Have you modified your /etc/bash_profile at all? I would assume that if this > is a clean install the software should be fine... > > If you feel adventurous, check out the man pages for "strace" and do an > strace on bash itself :) There may be some errors popping up that are not > clear from just running it. > > -Chris > > On 2011-11-17, at 9:35 AM, Yi Ding wrote: > >> Thanks for the suggestions Chris. The reason I think it's a global >> terminal issue rather than a GNOME terminal problem is that it also >> happens when I SSH in from my windows machine (which is on the same >> LAN). Also, programs running inside the terminal will slow down, for >> example top will refresh slower than it would normally. It also >> affects everyone who's logged in, not just me. >> >> Cheers, >> Yi >> >> On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 11:32 AM, Christopher Tooley <[email protected]> wrote: >>> I haven't experienced this myself, but I can offer some possible >>> troubleshooting tips :) >>> >>> See if it happens in xterm as well. If so, it might have something to do >>> with your bashrc or bash_profile (if you're using bash, that is, others >>> have different preference files) >>> >>> If it doesn't slow down in xterm, try konsole to double check that it's >>> something up with gnome-terminal and/or launch gnome-terminal from xterm, >>> there may be some error statements being flushed to STDIN that may help >>> diagnose it... >>> >>> -Chris >>> >>> On 2011-11-17, at 6:02 AM, Yi Ding wrote: >>> >>>> Hi everyone, >>>> >>>> First time scientific linux user. I'm having a strange issue that I >>>> haven't seen on any other installation. Basically at random >>>> intervals, my GNOME Terminal (and/or any other terminals I'm using, >>>> for example SSH from another machine) slows down to a crawl. This >>>> slowness doesn't seem to affect my GUI applications, and when I run >>>> top, there's no signs of high cpu or memory usage. >>>> >>>> Has anyone else had this problem? Can someone suggest a solution? >>>> >>>> Thanks, >>>> Yi >>> >>> > >
