FWIW that 4 second pause on bash startup I was seeing with or without thinkfinger? It was bash parsing my ~/.bash_history (> 100000 lines).
The other pauses are thinkfinger's fault, see http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=519631 which also links to http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12301 and mentions there's a patch.
FWIW that 4 second pause on bash startup I was seeing with or without thinkfinger? It was bash parsing my ~/.bash_history (> 100000 lines).
The other pauses are thinkfinger's fault, see http:// bugs.debian. org/cgi- bin/bugreport. cgi?bug= 519631 which also links to http:// bugzilla. kernel. org/show_ bug.cgi? id=12301 and mentions there's a patch.