"why is my Linux so damn slow?"

[Lamar Owen]

On Saturday, February 12, 2011 04:48:46 pm compdoc wrote:
> >> 7.024044] i2c i2c-0: nForce2 SMBus adapter at 0x600
> 
> AMD's Socket A. Pretty old, slow system. It's possible it doesn't implement
> APIC and ACPI correctly. Someone suggested a bios update - if there is one,
> that would be a good idea.

Uh, by /proc/cpuinfo it's a Socket AM2 Athlon 4850e, which isn't too awfully old.

Socket A was pre-Athlon64, and definitely not capable of 8GB of RAM.....

The motherboard he referenced is an  ASUS M3N78-EM, which is a current product at NewEgg, among other vendors.

> Does the command  'smartctl -a /dev/sda'   show any reallocated sectors?

That's a thought.....

Palimpsest (Disk Utility) includes a utility to run SMART tests; launch Disk Utility, select the disk, click on 'SMART Data', then select the test you'd like.  It also lists the SMART information from the drive.