Ubuntu Sluggish or Slow

I was recently having a problem where my new computer was becoming extremely sluggish while running Ubuntu Linux 11.04.  The keyboard input was very delayed and slow.  The graphics were terribly slow.  Just about everything in the system became very slow.  I’ve heard reports from…

Slow SSH Login

I had slow login problems with my SSH server for many months, and never bothered to try and fix it. Finally I got sick of it, and enabled verbose mode. I noticed it was doing public key authentication, GSSAPI authentication, and then password. The authentication…