> This might seem dumb, but are there any issues with name resolution? > Could DNS queries be slowing things down?
Nah, it's a good thought, but this is with an already-established session running from localhost. Based on the strace, I can guess that this is definitely something disk-based and that I'm just going to have to deal with it from that angle. John -- John Madden UNIX Systems Engineer Ivy Tech Community College of Indiana [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html