Rob Phillips wrote:
Over the last few days, it has been taking terminal a minute or
more to respond to each command I type. Any ideas what causes
this? Is it a 10.4.3 thing?
Does it respond normally as you type, and only have a delay before
executing the command and displaying a result?
Now, here's a bit of a barrage of questions and things to try.
Please reply with the results; it should help indicate what might be
wrong or at least narrow it down a bit.
Is there a delay if you run the command " : " (just type a colon,
and hit enter) ? That command says "do nothing", but it's a shell
builtin - it doesn't involve creating another program like most
commands do. The same thing with a separate program is "/bin/true" -
is there a delay when you run that one? What about "id" ? What's the
output of the command "time id" ? What does the "hostname" command
say (er... I think Mac OS X has a "hostname" command; if not, try
"uname -n" instead) and is there a delay when you run it?
A delay of a minute or so could easily be a timeout, probably a
network timeout. Are you using NetInfo for distributed settings and
user management? What about an Active Directory (Windows) Domain,
NIS, or LDAP?
I think networks were the problem. I was just at QUT in Brisbane for
a conference, and I had to install their version of Cisco VPN. I
uninstalled that yesterday after I sent the message and now terminal
works like normal.
Thanks for the feedback.
Rob
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