Howard, Thanks! The strace did it. It showed me that it was delaying on a poll() event to our dns servers. Once I fixed that, all is working like I expect.

Thanks again, Chris.... Howard Chu wrote: > Chris Hane wrote: >> When I execute the following command: >> >> ldapsearch -v -x -b "dc=abmas,dc=biz" -d 5 -h 127.0.0.1 >> >> there is a significant lag between hitting return and when I see the >> debug output - 6-8 seconds. >> >> I'm pretty sure this is a configuration problem or network problem on >> my end as this same command in a different environment executes >> immediately. >> >> To help me isolate where the problem is, is there another method to >> debug what ldapsearch is doing before I see the first lines listed in >> the debug output with -d 5? Or is there another utility I could use >> than ldapsearch? > > Try using strace and see what system calls get executed and where the > delay is. Alternatively you could try running ldapsearch under gdb and > interrupting it to get a stack trace from where the delay occurs. >