Thanks Steven. I'll give those a try as well.
On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 1:26 PM, Steven J. Yellin <[email protected]> wrote: > I haven't been following this thread closely, but have you looked in the > log file? For example, do 'grep -i error /var/log/messages'? And the dag > repository has an atop rpm. You can run 'atop' to see if some resource, > such as disk I/O, is being saturated. > > Steven Yellin > > On Thu, 17 Nov 2011, Yi Ding wrote: > >> 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 >>>>> >>>>> >>> >>> >
