Slow reaction when accessing /tmp

[Johann Spies <johann.spies@gmail.com>]

I work on my work laptop (testing), home laptop(sid) and home desktop
(sid)  - all of them with XFCE4.  On two other servers at work we use
Stable without an X11 environment.

On my work laptop when I access /tmp/ for anything it can take up to
more than a minute before I get reaction.  This is not the case of the
other computers.  Example from this morning - after I unzipped a file
to /tmp (which did not take too long and created 8 gzipped files and
two csv-files):

js@sitasie /tmp 10:24:50> chmod 666 WR*.gz
js@sitasie /tmp 10:26:03>

On the work laptop I use /usr/bin/fizsh as $SHELL.
I have no idea what is causing this and how to solve it.

Any help would be appreciated.

Regards
Johann.
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