[ale] Long lag for command line

Pete Hardie pete.hardie at gmail.com
Fri Jun 28 23:59:23 EDT 2013


vi will use temp files, whose location typically is under /tmp.  I've had
systems with a full disk misbehave in odd ways like that

Pete Hardie
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On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 8:37 PM, Dustin Strickland <
dustin.h.strickland at gmail.com> wrote:

> Pete, just wondering, how would that affect a shell? Do they use /tmp
> often?
>
>
> On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 8:19 PM, Pete Hardie <pete.hardie at gmail.com>wrote:
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>> Out of space on /tmp?
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>> Pete Hardie
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>> On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 6:56 PM, Alex Carver <agcarver+ale at acarver.net>wrote:
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>>> Anyone ever experience long lags for simple things at the command line?
>>>  Right now I've got a Debian system that had been working fine but for some
>>> reason now it takes it a few seconds to do something simple like open vi or
>>> cat a file -- not even big files, just a few kilobytes or less.  The load
>>> average is 1.5 but top doesn't show anything really hitting the CPU.  No
>>> cron jobs running at the time, the machine is mostly quiet.  It just
>>> handles a few internal activities for me (internal web server, place to
>>> compile little things, etc).
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