Thanks for the idea of using tnsping. Running it shows 30-40 ms response time on the same box. I would think that's ok.

There are a few memory hungry things running, but for the most part they are swapped out to HD space. Since oracle is being used alot, it's still kept in memory.

This is a development PC which is why I have a few memory hungry apps running at the same time, but this has always been the case and it was never slow to login w/ sqlplus.

SQLLDR is also slow. :(

Physical Ram: 256mb
Available: 29 MB
Commit Charge aka swapfile: 350MB

I'm closed all the non-oracle apps and see what the login time is and it's still slightly over a minute.

Any other tips?