Richard E Miles wrote:
I doubt that those commands are causing the times that you see. Do a top to see what processes are running.
Its the utilities associated with maintaining the users for certain.
Here's an earlier snapshot I took of usermod.
top - 16:51:00 up 23:51, 3 users, load average: 2.17, 1.96, 1.86
Tasks: 56 total, 1 running, 55 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 1.3% us, 5.0% sy, 0.0% ni, 0.0% id, 93.4% wa, 0.3% hi, 0.0% si
Mem: 1035980k total, 1029772k used, 6208k free, 1084k buffers
Swap: 2032212k total, 1021100k used, 1011112k free, 3556k cached
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 5755 root 18 0 1401m 964m 308 D 3.3 95.3 0:18.65 usermod 177 root 15 0 0 0 0 S 2.3 0.0 1:32.82 kswapd0
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