On Sat, Nov 26, 2022 at 09:55:49AM -0600, David Wright wrote: > On Sat 26 Nov 2022 at 14:00:39 (+0100), email.list...@gmail.com wrote: > > > > Doing tab completion in my user account is quite sluggish, it takes > > about half a second before anything happens after pressing tab. > > > > I've done an strace on the shell and it turns out that when I press > > tab bash does a select() on stdout that times out after half a second. > > When I'm logged in as root and do the same thing bash does not do > > that, so I presume it has something to do with how tab completion is > > configured when I'm logged in to my regular user account. I'm not sure > > how to investigate this further, any help would be appreciated. I'm > > still on debian 10 and my version of bash is 5.0.3(1) > > Do you have a networked filesystem in your PATH? Or a directory on > a slow device, like a stick or caddy? Remember to check symlinks.
Hm. The select() seems to suggest that the bash is waiting on a socket. Can you see in the trace how the fd select is waiting on was opened? Perhaps that gives a clue. Cheers -- t
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