Hi Rob,
> Somebody here:
>
https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-server-73/slowness-after-i...
> mentioned DNS problems, but nslookup seems to be resolving things fine.
>
> Any idea what I can do to fix the issue?
What are the specs on this VM? CPU and RAM.
Too little RAM can cause an OOM. I'd check for that as well.
It was 1gb of ram, 1 CPU running on a 2.4ghz host.
I upped it to 1.5gb ram and 2 CPUs, and it seems to have completed.
Thanks for your help and quick reply!
Chris