iBook Slowdown (cpu sys =93 %)

[Larry Blodgett]

I dual boot my iBook (MacOS9 and MacOS 10.2.2) and normally run in 
MacOS9.  I generally boot into 10 about once a week.  MacOS 10 ran 
just fine until 2 days back.  I noticed it was really slow, slow, 
slow.  It took maybe 10 minutes to boot and it seems like the system 
is working very hard.

So I went to the terminal and here are the results (notice the CPU 
sys =92.7%  also note the  0 kernel_tas  97.9%)

What could be wrong here and how do I fix it? I would rather not 
reinstall the system if possible.

   410 fix_prebin   0.0%  0:00.77   1    17    31   240K  3.61M  1.09M  18.2M
Processes:  34 total, 2 running, 32 sleeping... 77 threads             13:00:33
Load Avg:  2.34, 2.38, 2.29     CPU usage:  7.3% user, 92.7% sys, 0.0% idle
SharedLibs: num =   80, resident = 18.4M code, 2.05M data, 7.54M LinkEdit
MemRegions: num = 1747, resident = 14.8M + 5.04M private, 28.7M shared
PhysMem:  33.6M wired, 51.4M active, 72.4M inactive,  157M used,  163M free
VM:  843M + 55.6M   6416(0) pageins, 0(0) pageouts

   PID COMMAND      %CPU   TIME   #TH #PRTS #MREGS RPRVT  RSHRD  RSIZE  VSIZE
   409 top         10.9%  0:54.51   1    15    18   248K   336K   568K  13.9M
   408 tcsh         0.0%  0:00.12   1    10    15   348K   588K   788K  5.73M
   407 login        0.0%  0:03.88   1    12    33   240K   388K   564K  13.7M
   406 Terminal     4.1%  0:25.53   3    60   112  1.33M  6.91M  7.12M  44.6M
   347 IomegaDriv   0.4%  0:40.25   1    22    32   136K   732K   676K  14.2M
   346 Snard        0.0%  0:03.97   1    55    98  1.56M  3.55M  3.25M  40.1M
   344 Finder       0.0%  0:11.45   2    77   103  1.79M  8.58M  6.27M  45.4M
   343 SystemUISe   0.0%  0:11.27   1   134   107  1.42M  4.04M  3.68M  40.7M
   340 Dock         0.0%  0:08.36   2    80   130   952K  7.59M  2.59M  40.5M
   337 pbs          0.0%  0:05.31   2    27    27   412K   864K  1.19M  14.4M
   326 DirectoryS   0.0%  0:02.54   2    49   133   744K  3.20M  3.05M  20.4M
   311 loginwindo   0.0%  0:10.40   5   150   133  2.24M  4.30M  5.02M  30.7M
   305 cron         0.0%  0:00.13   1     8    17    76K   336K   164K  13.8M
   301 cupsd        0.0%  0:03.57   1     8    17   180K   464K   228K  2.94M
   299 smbd         0.0%  0:00.02   1     8    20   448K  1.02M   368K  15.5M
   296 xinetd       0.0%  0:00.11   1    10    15    96K   452K   264K  1.43M
   294 inetd        0.0%  0:00.01   1     8    12    44K   316K   112K  1.28M
   283 coreservic   0.0%  0:06.16   3    63    70  1.29M  3.73M  4.61M  21.6M
   252 lookupd      0.0%  0:05.16   2    30    48   344K   520K   796K  14.9M
   241 autodiskmo   0.0%  0:01.44   1    36    20   152K   744K   356K  14.6M
   229 Window Man   2.2%  2:25.58   2   145   183  3.12M  10.0M  12.8M  38.6M
   227 netinfod     0.0%  0:01.84   1     7    24   132K   428K   300K  1.66M
   207 crashrepor   0.0%  0:00.01   1    14    13    52K   308K   128K  13.3M
   198 syslogd      0.0%  0:00.46   1     7    13    80K   320K   164K  1.28M
   189 mDNSRespon   0.0%  0:00.11   2    30    20   524K   360K   804K  14.1M
   174 ATSServer    2.2%  1:10.83   2    34   112   424K  2.98M  2.32M  27.0M
   130 SecuritySe   0.0%  0:00.69   1    45    23   228K   948K   720K  14.9M
    96 configd      0.0%  0:42.05   3    88   122   380K  1.39M  1.51M  15.8M
    62 dynamic_pa   0.0%  0:00.01   1    10    14    56K   312K   100K  1.29M
    57 update       0.0%  0:01.92   1     7    13    52K   304K   104K  1.26M
    51 kextd        0.0%  0:05.90   2    18    23   760K   664K   728K  15.3M
     2 mach_init    0.0%  0:00.41   2    91    15    92K   332K   168K  1.80M
     1 init         0.0%  0:00.10   1     9    12    88K   316K   276K  1.28M
     0 kernel_tas  97.9% 93:59.04  24     0     -      -      -  25.8M+  285M+
     0 idle_threa   0.0%  0:00.00

-- 
Larry Blodgett
email:  (lblodgett at mac.com)
email:  (lblodgett at macosx.com)

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