On 03/07/2019 03:51 PM, frederik@xxxxxxx wrote: > Any ideas what might be causing this? I tried to debug with 'strace -r > -p' and it looks like most of the time is getting spent in a 'select' > call. > > 0.000171 geteuid() = 1000 > 0.000075 getegid() = 1000 > 0.000080 select(1024, [3 4 5 6], [], NULL, NULL) = 1 (in [3]) > 0.399534 fcntl(3, F_SETFL, O_RDONLY) = 0 > 0.000171 read(3, "\0gsm\4\0\0\0/dev/pts/33\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0"..., > 12336) = 12336 > 0.000169 close(3) = 0 Are you using Arch on bare-metal or in VirtualBox 6.x by chance? I saw similar slowdowns with VirtualBox 6.0 (and 6.2) when run --headless and similar strace errors (although with poll/write), e.g. [pid 32452] poll([{fd=3, events=POLLIN|POLLOUT}], 1, -1) = 1 ([{fd=3, revents=POLLOUT}]) [pid 32452] writev(3, [{iov_base="b\0\4\0\6\0@\4", iov_len=8}, {iov_base="RENDER", iov_len=6}, {iov_base="\0\0", io v_len=2}], 3) = 16 [pid 32452] futex(0x7fffd1f3f468, FUTEX_WAIT_PRIVATE, 0, NULL <unfinished ...> [pid 32493] +++ killed by SIGABRT (core dumped) +++ -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.