James Pearson wrote:
Frank Thommen wrote:
I'm experiencing similar problems on a DELL Optiplex 740 with the same CPU (AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 5000+ @ 2.60 GHz, 4 GB RAM, 80 GB Hitachi Deskstar 7K80 HD). But in my case the slowness is not restricted to OO, but the whole systems is slowed down. Even simple actions (e.g. starting a Gnome Console) bring the load up to over 2. Right after booting, the load is usually over 2, sometimes even up to 4.
Can you post the output of lspci and lsmod ?
sorry, forgot to copy-paste these in my original post:
[root@shelley ~]# uname -a Linux shelley 2.6.18-194.8.1.el5 #1 SMP Thu Jul 1 19:04:48 EDT 2010 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux [root@shelley ~]# lspci 00:00.0 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Host Bridge (rev a2) 00:00.1 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 0 (rev a2) 00:00.2 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 1 (rev a2) 00:00.3 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 5 (rev a2) 00:00.4 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 4 (rev a2) 00:00.5 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Host Bridge (rev a2) 00:00.6 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 3 (rev a2) 00:00.7 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 2 (rev a2) 00:02.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation C51 PCI Express Bridge (rev a1) 00:03.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation C51 PCI Express Bridge (rev a1) 00:04.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation C51 PCI Express Bridge (rev a1) 00:09.0 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation MCP51 Host Bridge (rev a2) 00:0a.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP51 LPC Bridge (rev a3) 00:0a.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation MCP51 SMBus (rev a3) 00:0a.2 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation MCP51 Memory Controller 0 (rev a3) 00:0b.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP51 USB Controller (rev a3) 00:0b.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP51 USB Controller (rev a3) 00:0e.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP51 Serial ATA Controller (rev a1) 00:0f.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP51 Serial ATA Controller (rev a1) 00:10.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP51 PCI Bridge (rev a2) 00:10.1 Audio device: nVidia Corporation MCP51 High Definition Audio (rev a2) 00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration 00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map 00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller 00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control 02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5754 Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express (rev 02) 03:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV43GL [Quadro FX 550] (rev a2) [root@shelley ~]# lsmod Module Size Used by autofs4 63049 11 hidp 83521 2 rfcomm 104681 0 l2cap 89281 10 hidp,rfcomm bluetooth 118853 5 hidp,rfcomm,l2cap lockd 101553 0 sunrpc 199945 2 lockd ip_conntrack_netbios_ns 36033 0 ipt_REJECT 38977 1 xt_state 35265 2 ip_conntrack 91621 2 ip_conntrack_netbios_ns,xt_state nfnetlink 40457 1 ip_conntrack iptable_filter 36161 1 ip_tables 55201 1 iptable_filter ip6t_REJECT 38849 1 xt_tcpudp 36289 10 ip6table_filter 36033 1 ip6_tables 50049 1 ip6table_filter x_tables 50505 6 ipt_REJECT,xt_state,ip_tables,ip6t_REJECT,xt_tcpudp,ip6_tables ipv6 435489 23 ip6t_REJECT xfrm_nalgo 43333 1 ipv6 crypto_api 42945 1 xfrm_nalgo cpufreq_ondemand 42449 1 powernow_k8 56025 1 freq_table 38977 2 cpufreq_ondemand,powernow_k8 dm_multipath 56921 0 scsi_dh 42177 1 dm_multipath video 53197 0 backlight 39873 1 video sbs 49921 0 power_meter 47053 0 i2c_ec 38593 1 sbs dell_wmi 37601 0 wmi 41985 1 dell_wmi button 40545 0 battery 43849 0 asus_acpi 50917 0 acpi_memhotplug 40516 0 ac 38729 0 lp 47121 0 joydev 43969 0 snd_hda_intel 639265 0 snd_seq_dummy 37061 0 snd_seq_oss 65473 0 snd_seq_midi_event 41025 1 snd_seq_oss snd_seq 87777 5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event snd_seq_device 41557 3 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq snd_pcm_oss 77377 0 snd_mixer_oss 49985 1 snd_pcm_oss snd_pcm 116681 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm_oss snd_timer 57161 2 snd_seq,snd_pcm snd_page_alloc 44113 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm sr_mod 50789 0 snd_hwdep 43593 1 snd_hda_intel cdrom 68713 1 sr_mod k8_edac 50693 0 k8temp 39105 0 snd 100073 9 snd_hda_intel,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_hwdep floppy 95464 0 hwmon 36553 2 power_meter,k8temp edac_mc 60193 1 k8_edac i2c_nforce2 41025 0 soundcore 41825 1 snd shpchp 70893 0 tg3 160841 0 i2c_core 56641 2 i2c_ec,i2c_nforce2 pcspkr 36289 0 sg 70377 0 parport_pc 62313 1 parport 73165 2 lp,parport_pc dm_raid45 99657 0 dm_message 36289 1 dm_raid45 dm_region_hash 46145 1 dm_raid45 dm_mem_cache 38977 1 dm_raid45 dm_snapshot 52233 0 dm_zero 35265 0 dm_mirror 54737 0 dm_log 44993 3 dm_raid45,dm_region_hash,dm_mirror dm_mod 101649 11 dm_multipath,dm_raid45,dm_snapshot,dm_zero,dm_mirror,dm_log sata_nv 62025 2 libata 209489 1 sata_nv sd_mod 56513 3 scsi_mod 196953 5 scsi_dh,sr_mod,sg,libata,sd_mod ext3 168913 2 jbd 94769 1 ext3 uhci_hcd 57433 0 ohci_hcd 56309 0 ehci_hcd 66125 0 [root@shelley ~]#
frank