[plug] Slow login

[simon at plumtek.com]

Quoting Michael Holland <myk at westnet.com.au>:

> On Thu, 19 Aug 2004, nofixed wrote:
>
>> Can anyone shed light on why it takes so long to login to MDK 10?
>> 200MHz cpu, 81MB ram, 2.6.3-7 kernel, text-mode login.
>
> It should be instant. Any errors in the logs?
> I'd suspect a network timeout, so run tcpdump while you are logging in.
> That might answer it.

Im wondering what network operations would be performed on login? I agree it
sounds like a network timeout, but I cant think of what it could be.

nofixed, once you're logged in does everything run as per normal? Whats 
the load
like?