[techtalk] Su slow?

[Sunnanvind]

On Thu, 03 Feb 2000, jdike at karaya.com wrote:
> > 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. 
> 
> Did you recently add any new stuff to root's .profile or anything?
> 
> Does the same thing happen if you su as root?  If so, try this:
> 	strace -r -o strace.out su
> 
> Then look at the first column in strace.out, which is the time since the last 
> system call, and keep an eye out for a big number.  The thing right before 
> that should be the culprit.

The strace.out was a couple of pages, the biggest number by far was

     0.000406 read(5, "", 256)          = 0
    20.108991 --- SIGCHLD (Child exited) ---

20.108991 the big number...

read(5, "", 256) doesn't sound like something comprehensible... should I paste
more of the strace.out?
Sunnan
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