PC running FC3 remains in high wait state

Hi All,

I just installed FC3 on a friends old intel celeron machine - on running it however, the system is very slow.

The CPU never has any idle cycles. It hovers between 5-10% user and the rest is always in wait state. The system is very unresponsive.

Is this normal ? Is it because the processor is too slow to handle FC3-KDE ? I tried XFCE, it was quicker, but still not responsive enough.

Is there anything I can do to speed it up ?

Here is the output of top: top - 01:03:32 up 24 min, 4 users, load average: 1.85, 1.95, 1.80 Tasks: 108 total, 2 running, 105 sleeping, 0 stopped, 1 zombie Cpu(s): 4.2% us, 5.2% sy, 2.6% ni, 0.0% id, 84.4% wa, 2.6% hi, 1.0% si Mem: 191268k total, 189936k used, 1332k free, 9704k buffers Swap: 524280k total, 31960k used, 492320k free, 53592k cached

Here is the output of procinfo: processor : 0 vendorid : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 6 model name : Celeron (Mendocino) stepping : 5 cpu MHz : 400.943 cache size : 128 KB fdivbug : no hltbug : no f00fbug : no comabug : no fpu : yes fpuexception : yes cpuid level : 2 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 mmx fxsr bogomips : 790.52

Nothing stands out invar-log-messages.

Any comments are appreciated.

TIA, rouble