here is some followup information. While testing I tried to start up rythembox. ps aux shows it is running but it does not show up on my desktop.
Results: sar 1 100 07:15:21 AM CPU %user %nice %system %iowait %steal %idle vmstat procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- -system-- ----cpu---- r b swpd free buff cache si so bi bo in cs us sy id wa 2 0 43992 39736 38732 126952 5 13 190 86 343 3269 46 9 40 5 top: asks: 146 total, 1 running, 145 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu(s): 3.7%us, 1.3%sy, 0.0%ni, 95.0%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st Mem: 444448k total, 420068k used, 24380k free, 15048k buffers Swap: 1299448k total, 46780k used, 1252668k free, 124044k cached PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 967 root 20 0 132m 49m 7640 S 3.0 11.4 355573:28 Xorg 1608 bobp 20 0 74512 26m 9336 S 1.0 6.1 355573:00 mudlet 1614 bobp 20 0 74604 26m 8948 S 1.0 6.0 355573:00 mudlet 1611 bobp 20 0 74532 25m 8364 S 0.7 5.9 355573:00 mudlet 1910 bobp 20 0 188m 55m 27m S 0.7 12.8 355572:55 rhythmbox 2032 root 20 0 2548 1200 904 R 0.7 0.3 0:00.19 top 1510 bobp 20 0 45952 8920 5740 S 0.3 2.0 0:02.64 gnome-terminal 1966 bobp 20 0 300m 69m 25m S 0.3 16.0 0:26.11 firefox-bin proc/interrupts CPU0 0: 51 IO-APIC-edge timer 1: 4746 IO-APIC-edge i8042 3: 2 IO-APIC-edge 4: 2 IO-APIC-edge 6: 2 IO-APIC-edge floppy 7: 0 IO-APIC-edge parport0 8: 0 IO-APIC-edge rtc0 9: 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi acpi 12: 136285 IO-APIC-edge i8042 14: 40771 IO-APIC-edge pata_sis 15: 72825 IO-APIC-edge pata_sis 18: 9552 IO-APIC-fasteoi eth0, SiS SI7012 20: 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi ohci_hcd:usb2 21: 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi ohci_hcd:usb3 22: 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi ohci_hcd:usb4 23: 431140 IO-APIC-fasteoi ehci_hcd:usb1 NMI: 0 Non-maskable interrupts LOC: 867360 Local timer interrupts SPU: 0 Spurious interrupts PMI: 0 Performance monitoring interrupts PND: 0 Performance pending work RES: 0 Rescheduling interrupts CAL: 0 Function call interrupts TLB: 0 TLB shootdowns TRM: 0 Thermal event interrupts THR: 0 Threshold APIC interrupts MCE: 0 Machine check exceptions MCP: 16 Machine check polls ERR: 1 MIS: 0 ** Attachment added: "Screenshot-LatencyTOP 0.5.png" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/740549/+attachment/1939790/+files/Screenshot-LatencyTOP%200.5.png -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/740549 Title: Ubuntu 10.04LTS runs slow after kernel updates -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs