[CentOS] CentOS 5.5 latest revisions seem really slow

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