[SLL] Strange performance problem

[Will Mengarini]

* Ski Kacoroski <kacoroski at comcast.net> [2007-01-01 10:29]:
> [...] ls, man, df, etc [...] takes 30 -
> 40 seconds for the command to complete.

If you're running bash, is PROMPT_COMMAND empty?

Does `ps axw -lH` show any processes with negative niceness?

Does running `ls $foo` a second time run significantly faster
than the first time (suggesting slow secondary storage)?