Hi there, this is just a heads-up message to check if other people made similar observations. Yesterday I've updated my systems ("zypper dup") from the former Factory release (sometime in October) to version "20141029 (Harlequin)". Apart from the trouble with VMware's modules everything appears as it did before. Now that I'm actually using this system, I realized that fetching e-mails from my local mailserver (postfix + dovecot22) using the fetchmail program is awfully slow. Before, a whole bunch of messages arrived on my workstation without any significant delay; now, running the same on kernel version 3.17.1-1.2.g5c4d099 looks like one e-mail per second. I've seen similar poor performance of fetchmail with IPv6 enabled (but not actually used) before, so I disabled IPv6 both on the server as well as on the client side, but didn't get any change or even improvement. I have now installed kernel version 3.16.7-1.gdfcb69e-desktop (from Kernel:/openSUSE-13.2/standard) and performance is back to normal. I don't know if this is a networking or a file system issue, but thought I'm going to report it here to check other people's opinions and/or experience. Here are some details about my system (server and client are identically configured): CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3770 CPU @ 3.40GHz RAM: 32 GiB Swap: 1 GiB (completely unused, just configured for safety) Root: 32 GiB btrfs on SSD Boot: 512 MiB ext2 on SSD Home: 1.9 TiB xfs on soft-raid10 with 4 hard disks Net: Realtek RTL8111/8168 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller + soft-bridging on top for virtualisation Your feedback is highly appreciated! TIA, cheers. l8er manfred