'No buffer space' - Ubuntu VERY slow... help!

[fony]

Im new to Linux and I've recently installed Ubuntu 8.04.1 on a second hard drive .. The install went smoothly as far as I could tell until I restarted to boot for the first time into Ubuntu which took at least 10 minutes to reach the log in screen.

So I found that it will boot after a long time and I've had the following error come up:

*Loading hardware drivers...
error receiving uevent message:
No buffer space available
(303.087893) intel-rng: FWH not detected

Despite that, I can log in and use everything within Ubuntu no problems... except that everything is a million times slower than it should be. CPU is consistently around 80% just running one tab in firefox and system monitor and it seems that the process using the majority of the CPU is called 'gnome-system-monitor'.

my system specs:

P4 3.06GHz
1 Gig of RAM
MSI mainboard (845GE Max)
Onboard graphics

ANY help or suggestions greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance, fony.

EDIT: I forgot to mention... I checked the md5 on the ISO once I downloaded it and burned at 2.5 speed so I don't think the problem is being caused by a bad burn.

[ilrudie]

Please post the output from the following commands run from the terminal:
free -m
top
df -kh

*top will update over and over again so just use <ctrl>+<c> to stop it and copy the output over.

[fony]

free -m
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 1010 938 71 0 245 327
-/+ buffers/cache: 364 645
Swap: 2376 0 2376




top

top - 21:30:14 up 2:09, 2 users, load average: 0.64, 0.29, 0.20
Tasks: 104 total, 1 running, 103 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 11.5%us, 0.0%sy, 0.0%ni, 88.5%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st
Mem: 1034348k total, 961176k used, 73172k free, 251820k buffers
Swap: 2433808k total, 220k used, 2433588k free, 335752k cached

PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
9301 tom 20 0 2308 1108 852 R 4.4 0.1 0:00.42 top
9263 tom 20 0 74280 20m 10m S 3.2 2.0 0:08.82 gnome-terminal
6773 root 20 0 245m 28m 9356 S 1.9 2.8 4:30.19 Xorg
7366 tom 20 0 171m 79m 23m S 1.9 7.9 6:13.83 firefox
7141 tom 20 0 15376 4736 3764 S 0.6 0.5 0:27.62 gnome-screensav
7117 tom 20 0 28476 5956 3408 S 0.3 0.6 0:20.44 pulseaudio
1 root 20 0 2844 1692 544 S 0.0 0.2 0:03.56 init
2 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kthreadd
3 root RT -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 migration/0
4 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 ksoftirqd/0
5 root RT -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 watchdog/0
6 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.10 events/0
7 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 khelper
41 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.18 kblockd/0
44 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kacpid
45 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kacpi_notify
116 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kseriod




df -kh
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 54G 2.3G 49G 5% /
varrun 506M 100K 505M 1% /var/run
varlock 506M 0 506M 0% /var/lock
udev 506M 344K 505M 1% /dev
devshm 506M 180K 505M 1% /dev/shm
lrm 506M 38M 468M 8% /lib/modules/2.6.24-19-generic/volatile
gvfs-fuse-daemon 54G 2.3G 49G 5% /home/tom/.gvfs


thanks for the fast reply man.

[ilrudie]

Your memory usage looks unusually high but your processor looks ok. Is this a default install. Have you added any other applications? Try sorting the system monitor output by memory and see what is using up all your memory.