[NTLUG:Discuss] SuSE 10.3 really slow in some respects

[Leroy Tennison]

This seems to have developed in the recent past.  I press delete on a
Thunderbird message and about three seconds later it responds.  The
KBounce game is sluggish.  Other applications don't seem to be affected.
    Any thoughts would be appreciated, thanks for your help.  Here's
/proc/meminfo:

MemTotal:       483712 kB
MemFree:        131856 kB
Buffers:          3648 kB
Cached:         166812 kB
SwapCached:         12 kB
Active:         266384 kB
Inactive:        63324 kB
HighTotal:           0 kB
HighFree:            0 kB
LowTotal:       483712 kB
LowFree:        131856 kB
SwapTotal:      996020 kB
SwapFree:       995792 kB
Dirty:            6700 kB
Writeback:           0 kB
AnonPages:      159244 kB
Mapped:         105964 kB
Slab:            13652 kB
SReclaimable:     6880 kB
SUnreclaim:       6772 kB
PageTables:       1972 kB
NFS_Unstable:        0 kB
Bounce:              0 kB
CommitLimit:   1237876 kB
Committed_AS:   489904 kB
VmallocTotal:   540664 kB
VmallocUsed:      9624 kB
VmallocChunk:   529744 kB
HugePages_Total:     0
HugePages_Free:      0
HugePages_Rsvd:      0
Hugepagesize:     4096 kB

and /proc/cpuinfo

processor       : 0
vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
cpu family      : 15
model           : 2
model name      : Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.53GHz
stepping        : 7
cpu MHz         : 2533.149
cache size      : 512 KB
fdiv_bug        : no
hlt_bug         : no
f00f_bug        : no
coma_bug        : no
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 2
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge
mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe up cid
bogomips        : 5070.31
clflush size    : 64

and df

Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda3              9843308   5248048   4095240  57% /
udev                    241856       100    241756   1% /dev
/dev/sda4              9843308   2697640   6645648  29% /Data
/dev/sda1               101086     15471     80396  17% /boot

and mount

/dev/sda3 on / type ext3 (rw,acl,user_xattr)
proc on /proc type proc (rw)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw)
debugfs on /sys/kernel/debug type debugfs (rw)
udev on /dev type tmpfs (rw)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,mode=0620,gid=5)
/dev/sda4 on /Data type ext3 (rw,acl,user_xattr)
/dev/sda1 on /boot type ext3 (rw,acl,user_xattr)
securityfs on /sys/kernel/security type securityfs (rw)

I can supply a list of running daemons if desired but this is a desktop
without anything exotic.