Why network related commands takes more time to display its output ?
Issue
- When executing any command which shows network related details , it takes more time then usual to show its output.
~] $ time ifconfig |grep -i "encap.*Ethernet" | wc -l
7
real 0m11.519s
user 0m0.001s
sys 0m0.115s
- Same issue whether the command is issued locally or from remotely.
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5
- HP System
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