pc has slowed down on the net

[LinuxHippy]

My pc has gotten slow. It's only a 450 MHz pc, but my laptop with 350 MHz is faster. Both pcs have Linux-just different versions. My 450 MHz desktop is noticeably faster at opening up applications...it's just slow on the net during the same time frame and at the same sites as my 350 MHz laptop.

My 450 MHz laptop has FC3 and I've used yum often to make sure it's up to date.

Any ideas why this is??

[DRE.ORGY.NET]

What services are you running on your PC? How is your network setup?

Its possible that something on either your PC or Laptop is using up most of the bandwidth which is making the other connection slow. Also check /var/log/messages for any clues.

[LinuxHippy]

I don't think it's a bandwith thing because file downloads with wget come in at around 90 kb/sec...this is peak speed for me.

This is at the end of my /var/log/messages:

Mar 17 17:16:10 localhost login(pam_unix)[3917]: authentication failure; logname=LOGIN uid=0 euid=0 tty=tty1 ruser= rhost= user=linuxhippy
Mar 17 17:16:12 localhost login[3917]: FAILED LOGIN 1 FROM (null) FOR linuxhippy, Authentication failure
Mar 17 17:16:20 localhost login(pam_unix)[3917]: session opened for user linuxhippy by LOGIN(uid=0)
Mar 17 17:16:20 localhost -- linuxhippy[3917]: LOGIN ON tty1 BY linuxhippy

Looks like pam had difficulty the first try, but succeeded the second time. Would pam slow my system down?

These are my processes-any that may slow down my pc on the internet?

USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND
root 1 0.0 0.1 2720 560 ? S 17:14 0:01 init [3]
root 2 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SN 17:14 0:00 [ksoftirqd/0]
root 3 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 17:14 0:00 [events/0]
root 4 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 17:14 0:00 [khelper]
root 19 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 17:14 0:00 [kblockd/0]
root 95 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 17:14 0:00 [pdflush]
root 96 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 17:14 0:00 [pdflush]
root 98 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 17:14 0:00 [aio/0]
root 97 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 17:14 0:00 [kswapd0]
root 59 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 17:14 0:00 [kapmd]
root 27 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 17:14 0:00 [khubd]
root 189 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 17:14 0:00 [kseriod]
root 386 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 17:14 0:00 [kjournald]
root 1360 0.0 0.1 2392 464 ? S<s 17:14 0:00 udevd
root 2285 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 17:15 0:00 [kjournald]
root 2286 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 17:15 0:00 [kjournald]
root 2287 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 17:15 0:00 [kjournald]
root 3287 0.0 0.3 2776 1004 ? Ss 17:15 0:00 /sbin/dhclient -1 -q -lf /var/lib/dhcp/dhclient-eth0.leases -pf /var/run/dhclien
root 3349 0.0 0.1 1888 620 ? Ss 17:15 0:00 syslogd -m 0
root 3353 0.0 0.1 2764 480 ? Ss 17:15 0:00 klogd -x
rpc 3381 0.0 0.1 2316 584 ? Ss 17:15 0:00 portmap
rpcuser 3401 0.0 0.2 2576 756 ? Ss 17:15 0:00 rpc.statd
root 3445 0.0 0.3 5600 1008 ? Ss 17:15 0:00 rpc.idmapd
root 3478 0.0 0.1 3060 504 ? Ss 17:15 0:00 /usr/sbin/apmd -p 10 -w 5 -W -P /etc/sysconfig/apm-scripts/apmscript
root 3538 0.0 0.1 3708 580 ? Ss 17:15 0:00 nifd -n
nobody 3568 0.0 0.3 13660 1024 ? Ssl 17:15 0:00 mDNSResponder
root 3580 0.0 0.2 2724 828 ? S 17:15 0:00 /usr/sbin/smartd
root 3709 0.0 0.4 5592 1540 ? Ss 17:15 0:00 /usr/sbin/sshd
root 3720 0.0 0.2 3116 832 ? Ss 17:15 0:00 xinetd -stayalive -pidfile /var/run/xinetd.pid
root 3740 0.0 0.9 8480 2992 ? Ss 17:15 0:00 sendmail: accepting connections
smmsp 3748 0.0 0.8 7332 2588 ? Ss 17:15 0:00 sendmail: Queue runner@01:00:00 for /var/spool/clientmqueue
root 3759 0.0 0.1 2216 540 ? Ss 17:15 0:00 gpm -m /dev/input/mice -t imps2
root 3769 0.0 0.2 5428 812 ? Ss 17:15 0:00 crond
xfs 3809 0.2 0.6 5064 1956 ? Ss 17:15 0:06 xfs -droppriv -daemon
root 3819 0.0 0.1 3128 640 ? SNs 17:15 0:00 anacron -s
root 3828 0.0 0.2 3020 696 ? Ss 17:15 0:00 /usr/sbin/atd
dbus 3838 0.0 0.3 3840 1148 ? Ss 17:15 0:00 dbus-daemon-1 --system
root 3851 0.0 0.3 4560 1048 ? Ss 17:15 0:00 cups-config-daemon
root 3862 0.1 1.4 6700 4536 ? Ss 17:15 0:03 hald
root 3896 0.0 4.3 14028 14020 ? SLsl 17:15 0:02 mdmpd
root 3917 0.0 0.4 3660 1380 ? Ss 17:15 0:00 login -- linuxhippy
root 3918 0.0 0.1 3000 408 tty2 Ss+ 17:15 0:00 /sbin/mingetty tty2
root 3919 0.0 0.1 2716 408 tty3 Ss+ 17:15 0:00 /sbin/mingetty tty3
root 3920 0.0 0.1 1556 408 tty4 Ss+ 17:15 0:00 /sbin/mingetty tty4
root 3966 0.0 0.1 2192 408 tty5 Ss+ 17:15 0:00 /sbin/mingetty tty5
root 3967 0.0 0.1 2360 408 tty6 Ss+ 17:15 0:00 /sbin/mingetty tty6
500 4351 0.0 0.4 6088 1432 tty1 Ss 17:16 0:00 -bash
500 4378 0.0 0.3 5496 1012 tty1 S+ 17:16 0:00 /bin/sh /usr/X11R6/bin/startx
500 4389 0.0 0.1 2400 584 tty1 S+ 17:16 0:00 xinit /home/linuxhippy/.xinitrc --
root 4390 14.9 12.7 45232 41060 ? S 17:16 7:39 X :0
500 4418 0.8 1.3 9788 4412 tty1 S 17:16 0:25 fluxbox
500 4431 0.0 0.7 6440 2264 ? S 17:16 0:01 xscreensaver
500 4433 2.5 3.0 28660 9708 ? S 17:16 1:19 gkrellm -w
500 4440 0.2 2.7 21576 8828 ? S 17:16 0:06 amor
500 4442 0.1 3.5 25508 11352 ? S 17:16 0:04 klipper
500 4445 0.0 2.6 26192 8648 ? Ss 17:16 0:00 kdeinit: Running...
500 4448 0.0 4.0 27824 13020 ? S 17:16 0:02 kmix
500 4450 0.0 2.6 24828 8552 ? Ss 17:16 0:00 kdeinit: Running...
500 4452 0.0 3.7 28080 12192 ? S 17:16 0:00 korn
500 4454 0.0 2.6 25432 8544 ? Ss 17:16 0:00 kdeinit: Running...
500 4457 0.0 2.5 24088 8072 ? S 17:16 0:00 kdeinit: dcopserver --nosid --suicide
500 4460 0.0 2.5 24096 8076 ? S 17:16 0:00 kdeinit: dcopserver --nosid --suicide
500 4462 0.0 2.5 25444 8308 ? S 17:16 0:00 kdeinit: dcopserver --nosid --suicide
500 4465 0.0 2.5 24684 8072 ? S 17:16 0:00 kdeinit: dcopserver --nosid --suicide
500 4470 0.0 2.7 26736 8964 ? S 17:16 0:00 kdeinit: klauncher
500 4472 0.0 3.3 26176 10816 ? S 17:16 0:01 kdeinit: kded
500 4475 0.0 2.6 24112 8376 ? S 17:16 0:00 kdeinit: klauncher
500 4477 0.0 2.6 24700 8404 ? S 17:16 0:00 kdeinit: klauncher
500 4484 0.0 0.4 3484 1492 ? S 17:16 0:00 /usr/libexec/gam_server
500 4526 0.0 0.6 6640 2080 ? S 17:26 0:00 /usr/libexec/gconfd-2 9
500 4544 0.0 0.3 5744 1048 ? Ss 17:32 0:00 /bin/sh /mnt/hda6/firefox-installer/firefox
500 4555 0.0 0.3 4260 1060 ? S 17:32 0:00 /bin/sh /mnt/hda6/firefox-installer/run-mozilla.sh /mnt/hda6/firefox-installer/f
500 4560 8.1 11.4 105528 36836 ? Sl 17:32 2:50 /mnt/hda6/firefox-installer/firefox-bin
500 4594 0.0 4.7 34752 15196 ? S 17:46 0:00 kdeinit: knotify
500 4598 0.2 2.5 44208 8340 ? S 17:46 0:03 /usr/bin/artsd -F 10 -S 4096 -s 60 -m artsmessage -l 3 -f
root 4679 1.1 1.9 12568 6384 ? S 18:05 0:01 /usr/bin/artsd -F 10 -S 4096 -s 60 -m artsmessage -l 3 -f
500 4706 28.0 4.4 30368 14168 ? Ss 18:07 0:01 /usr/bin/konsole
500 4707 0.6 0.4 4608 1356 pts/1 Ss 18:07 0:00 /bin/bash
500 4709 0.0 0.2 2616 772 pts/1 R+ 18:07 0:00 ps -aux

[LinuxHippy]

I have 4 processes above that say this:

kdeinit: dcopserver --nosid --suicide

What's dcopserver??

I use Fluxbox primarily...sometimes KDE. I only use my pc to surf the net and check email.