Why commands are executing slowly?
Issue
- Few commands like
uptimeandwhoare executing slowly.
[root@example ~]# time uptime
13:07:56 up 491 days, 2:59, 2 users, load average: 0.53, 0.21, 0.09
real 0m2.205s
user 0m0.285s
sys 0m1.867s
[root@example ~]# time who
root pts/7 2018-06-08 09:37
root pts/0 2018-06-08 13:07
real 0m2.360s
user 0m0.353s
sys 0m1.954s
[root@example ~]# time date
Fri Jun 8 13:10:40 BST 2018
real 0m0.002s
user 0m0.000s
sys 0m0.002s
The commands who and uptime are taking around 2 seconds to execute whereas the date command gets executed in less than a second.
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.x
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