logstash takes forever to run, even just 'logstash version'

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Logstash doesn't seem to ever fully start and collect logs. Doesn't even provide any stdout output after 10+ minutes.

even a simple `logstash version` takes a long time ( tried with both openjdk and oracle ) :

```
root@logstash-n01:~# time JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.7.0-openjdk-amd64 /opt/logstash/server/bin/logstash version
logstash 1.4.1

real 2m50.969s
user 4m36.853s
sys 0m6.616s
```

I'm sure this is a problem with the server itself, rather than logstash code, but I haven't been able to track down anything that would suggest what is wrong.

It's a ubuntu 12.04 box, all packages updated.
32gb ram, 12core E5-2640 CPU

I've removed and reinstalled logstash, removed and reinstalled java.

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PaulP June 4, 2014 at 2:30 PM

idk what the issue was ... even after several reboots it kept failing to start, and version would take 5+ minutes to output. I flipped my table and went home. The next day it decided to start and function correctly because computer.

Jordan Sissel June 4, 2014 at 6:14 AM

Hah, what was the issue?

To be fair, I completely agree logstash has bad startup time (it's usually 10-ish seconds for me, which is still tragically slow, we're working on that)

PaulP June 3, 2014 at 2:09 PM

this is stupid ... its not a logstash problem, was I drunk when I decided to create a jira for it ?

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Created June 2, 2014 at 7:51 PM
Updated June 4, 2014 at 2:30 PM
Resolved June 3, 2014 at 2:09 PM