Still hoping for some suggestions on how to solve the subject problem. 

In a recent previous message, I did reply to the only two suggestions 
that I had received, which ask what my disk usage was and what 'top' 
showed.  Here are those answers: 

$ df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda6             9.7G  7.3G  1.9G  80% /
/dev/hdb1             4.0G  1.3G  2.7G  32% /mnt/windows

top - 10:12:33 up 3 days,  2:03,  3 users,  load average: 1.13, 1.44, 1.94
Tasks:  96 total,   1 running,  95 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
Cpu(s): 75.7% us,  2.3% sy,  0.0% ni,  0.0% id, 21.6% wa,  0.3% hi,  0.0%
si Mem:    515484k total,   509460k used,     6024k free,     1704k buffers
Swap:  1269084k total,   100368k used,  1168716k free,   334524k cached

   PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
 3923 joe       15   0  137m  73m 5868 S 64.2 14.6   2708:27 kded
23690 joe       15   0 70620  37m  25m S  0.0  7.5   0:08.93 kontact

Prior to this recent drastic slowdown, kmail used to open in 1 or 2 seconds. 
Now it takes up to 30 seconds and sometimes it doesn't open at all. 
A terminal shell window used to open instantaneously, and now it can 
take from 10 to 15 seconds to open. 

I did not make any changes in my system, so can't imagine why this 
drastic slowdown has occurred. 

Hope someone can offer some guidance to solve this mystery. 

Thanks, 

joe@actionline.com 

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