Linux

Hi All,

I installed Linux recently on my PC and finding it difficult to boost its performance.
It takes hell lot of time to open Mozilla, text pad , & even the booting process is too slow, many a times I got to manually power off to shutdown the computer.

I will be glad if you could help me boost the Linux performance on my PC.

Please take a look at the following details
1) Linux distribution : CentOS 5
2) RAM : 1 GB
3) AMD 2 GHz Processor
4) 80 GB of hard drive

TOP outut:

top - 11:03:46 up 1:11, 2 users, load average: 0.26, 0.33, 0.78
Tasks: 155 total, 2 running, 153 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 7.5%us, 5.9%sy, 0.0%ni, 86.1%id, 0.2%wa, 0.2%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st
Mem: 903652k total, 891696k used, 11956k free, 5936k buffers
Swap: 1835000k total, 142072k used, 1692928k free, 694892k cached

PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
3876 Tom 16 0 88580 11m 7244 S 12 1.3 0:07.03 gnome-terminal
3623 Tom 5 -10 760m 280m 271m S 10 31.8 24:56.90 vmware-vmx
3323 root 15 0 220m 14m 8032 R 3 1.7 3:06.25 Xorg
3614 Tom 15 0 104m 5212 3132 S 1 0.6 1:08.58 vmplayer
4223 Tom 15 0 2192 1048 796 R 0 0.1 0:00.30 top
1 root 15 0 2060 544 524 S 0 0.1 0:00.55 init
2 root RT -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 migration/0
3 root 34 19 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 ksoftirqd/0
4 root RT -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 watchdog/0
5 root RT -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 migration/1
6 root 35 19 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 ksoftirqd/1
7 root RT -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 watchdog/1
8 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.19 events/0
9 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.22 events/1
10 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 khelper
11 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 kthread
15 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 kblockd/0
16 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.07 kblockd/1
17 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 kacpid
126 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 cqueue/0
127 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 cqueue/1
130 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 khubd
132 root 12 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.03 kseriod
200 root 18 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:06.24 pdflush
201 root 15 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:06.21 pdflush
202 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:11.25 kswapd0
203 root 14 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 aio/0
204 root 14 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 aio/1
356 root 11 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 kpsmoused
388 root 14 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 ata/0
389 root 14 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 ata/1
390 root 14 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 ata_aux
394 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 scsi_eh_0
395 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 scsi_eh_1

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance..