[CentOS] CentOS 5.5 latest revisions seem really slow

SOLVED: On the original topic, the problem seems to have gone away
with the latest kernel:

marichter 2.6.18-194.11.1.el5 #1 SMP Tue Aug 10 19:05:06 EDT 2010
x86_64 GNU/Linux
centos-release-5-5.el5.centos.x86_64


Thanks to all who may be held responsible.  :-)

Mark