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 at 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 at 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 at 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 at shelley ~]# frank -- Frank Thommen - Structures IT Management and Support - EMBL Heidelberg frank.thommen at embl-heidelberg.de - +49 6221 387 8353