There is a problem with the telnet server causing it to be slow to login using telnet. Info from that issue shows that the telnet daemon have a lot of processes stuck at /var/volatile/run/utmp access This looks like https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=145004 which was handled in https://bugzilla.redhat.com/attachment.cgi?id=109730 We also found the following: Description: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/netkit-telnet/+bug/507455 Patch: https://launchpadlibrarian.net/37882973/0001-telnetd-Fix-deadlock-on-cleanup.patch