Terminal hangs every 10 seconds for 15 seconds

Hello!
New Mac user here, but I'm a crusty old linux guy at heart.
Brand new iMac (3.4 GHz I7) with Mavericks 10.9.2, pretty fresh out of the box. I've installed a few things: BBedit, Coda, XCode, macports etc.
The terminal has started pausing for 15 seconds, every 10. That is, 10 seconds of me entering commands etc, and then it will hang, spin the pinwheel, and then resume as if nothing happened. This repeats every 10 seconds.
It only appears to do it when terminal has the focus, because otherwise, this Mac rarely pinwheels for what I use it for so far.
any ideas?

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