Not sure where to look to try and figure out what the problem is. I was running SuSE9.3 on a P3 1GHz with 1GB RAM and an ATI 7000 video card... standard IDE hard drive. Onboard sound... ummm.. Realtec NIC. Nothing special.. things ran reasonably well on it - SuSE9.3 basic 32 bit install, with VMWare, Oracle10g and a Java based app or two. It finally died and I got a new machine. The new one is an AMD64 3000+ with 1GB RAM, and an ATI 9600 video card. Now I have a SATA drive instead of IDE... onboard sound/NIC etc. Same 9.3 32-bit install (YOU updated of course) with the same exact VMWare images, Oracle10g and the Java apps. I've had to go with the 32bit install on the 64bit machine because of the Oracle version I have to work with and a few other commercial/custom apps that are 32 bit only (the long list of dependancies the apps have means I have to uninstall most of the 64 bit install and install 32 bit versions... not worth the hassle). Anyway, I'm finding that the new machine - with in theory should be significantly faster than my old machine is in fact... slower than the old machine. I can't find out what's making it slower either. I've been monitoring my processes, and nothing out of the ordinary - that I can see anyway. But... my processor load sometimes pegs at 100% for no apparent reason - X for example taking 100% for minutes at a time.... but nothing is happening on screen... I'm not doing anything either (reading a text file... nothing processor/GUI intensive). There are times when I simply cannot do anything at all until the OS finishes whatever it is that's keeping it busy and returns control to me. Any suggestions where I can look or what I can monitor to try and find what it is that's making the system so slow? I do have one odd (repeating entry) in my /var/log/messages... ----------- Jun 24 06:36:42 smaug nmbd[6462]: find_domain_master_name_query_fail: Jun 24 06:36:42 smaug nmbd[6462]: Unable to find the Domain Master Browser name SMAUG<1b> for the workgroup SMAUG ------------ Jun 24 06:21:42 smaug nmbd[6462]: Unable to sync browse lists in this workgroup. Jun 24 06:36:42 smaug nmbd[6462]: [2005/06/24 06:36:42, 0] nmbd/nmbd_browsesync.c:find_domain_master_name_query_fail(353) ----------- This seems related back to a Samba share I have... I think, but I'm not sure since I don't know what is actually going wrong. Well, like I said, any suggesions would be more than welcome. C