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Originally Posted by
otheus
For sure it's not the processor (Look at your vmstat; see the column "id"? that means what percent of the time (per second) that your CPU is doing nothing (idle).) I also suspect it's not memory since you disabled VMware. Therefore, I suspect it's (a) slow or misconfigured hard drive or (b) bad hardware on the bus causing too many interrupts.
Let's start with the hard drive.
How much free space do you have on your drive? Show us the output of "df - k" please.
Then Read this :
Tuning IDE Hard Disk Performance
If you have a 5400 RPM drive and it's using a 33 MHz bus, then it's going to be slow.
Please take look at the df -k output:
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00
73799088 33056048 36933760 48% /
/dev/sda1 101086 17623 78244 19% /boot
tmpfs 451824 0 451824 0% /dev/shm