[techtalk] Su slow?

[Sunnanvind]

On Thu, 03 Feb 2000, Harry Hoffman wrote:
> Hey Sunnan,
>    Nobody is one of the default users in a Linux
> install. I've only paritially followed this thread but
> is it the actual su transition or the commmands that you
> issue after the transition to the substitute user? Also
> what does your meminfo look like 'promt#free' ? Are you
> writing to swap alot?
> Harry

This is a cutn'paste:

[Sunnan at localhost Sunnan]$ free
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:        128032     111132      16900      44820      16756      47716
-/+ buffers/cache:      46660      81372
Swap:        68004        292      67712
[Sunnan at localhost Sunnan]$ su
Password: 
[root at localhost Sunnan]# free
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:        128032     111540      16492      46236      16756      47716
-/+ buffers/cache:      47068      80964
Swap:        68004        292      67712
[root at localhost Sunnan]# 

When I hit the enter key after typing in the root password, it takes like a
minute or so. That's much slower than before.
Other than that, the only slow thing is typing "exit".
Sunnan
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