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