--snip-- > > Also, take a good look at the logs /var/log/messages and dmesg for hard > drive errors. Lots of times a bad drive will cause controller bus > resets that happen intermittently ... that can cause a 5-10 second delay > and then things seem to work fine till the next time. > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > I should have mentioned that.... /var/log/messages, /var/log/secure, /var/log/dmesg, /var/log/audit/audit.log.... well, any log I could think of - none show anything out of the ordinary.