Just to be sure, here you are the last test, with Fedora 11 Preview, without noatime and relatime. Just default fstab. [user@localhost ~]$ time firefox %u real 0m7.357s user 0m1.083s sys 0m1.066s [user@localhost ~]$ time gimp real 0m17.181s user 0m4.196s sys 0m4.139s [user@localhost ~]$ time openoffice.org -writer %U real 0m20.540s user 0m1.642s sys 0m2.379s [user@localhost ~]$ time gnome-control-center real 0m2.748s user 0m0.396s sys 0m0.464s [user@localhost ~]$ cat /etc/fstab # # /etc/fstab # Created by anaconda on Mon Jun 8 15:38:27 2009 # # Accessible filesystems, by reference, are maintained under '/dev/disk' # See man pages fstab(5), findfs(8), mount(8) and/or vol_id(8) for more info # UUID=107e4812-c43f-4ab8-be9c-9d40b82493c4 /boot ext3 defaults 1 2 /dev/mapper/VolGroup-lv_root / ext4 defaults 1 1 /dev/mapper/VolGroup-lv_swap swap swap defaults 0 0 tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 devpts /dev/pts devpts defaults 0 0 sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0 proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 -- S pozdravom / Best regards, Rasto -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org