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 ?
James Pearson