No it usually means you have a high IO wait or your CPU cores are nearly maxed &nbsp;out. Note heavy reliance on swap space due to insufficient ram can cause high IO wait too.<br><br><span style="font-family:Prelude, Verdana, san-serif;"><br><br></span><span id="signature"><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;color: #999999;">-- Sent from my HP Pre3</div><br></span><span style="color:navy; font-family:Prelude, Verdana, san-serif; "><hr align="left" style="width:75%">On Jun 2, 2013 5:26 AM, Mahmood Naderan &lt;<a href="/scripts/wa.exe?LOGON=A3%3Dind1306%26L%3DSCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS%26E%3Dquoted-printable%26P%3D8529%26B%3D--Alternative_%253D_Boundary_%253D_1370177087%26T%3Dtext%252Fhtml%3B%2520charset%3DUTF-8%26pending%3D" target="_parent" >[log in to unmask]</a>&gt; wrote: <br><br></span><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>Hi</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>Whenever I enter the root password after "su" command, it takes about 13 seconds!! to see the root prompt.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>Is that normal?</span></div><div>&nbsp;</div><div><div><font style="BACKGROUND-COLOR:#ffffff;" color="#0080ff" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);">Regards,<br>Mahmood</span><b><br></b></font></div></div></div></body></html>