A load of .14 is not bad, but what processes are using up 41% of your CPU?  Running Windows on this same system works fine, no packet loss?  Have you tried changing the cable?  I had a cable that was not crimped tight enough and had packet loss like this.

Dusty


> Hi Dusty,
> 
> Whenn I say Linux runs slow, I guess I mean too much CPU? here's what I get 
> from running top within KDE with Kmail running:
> 
>   8:48am  up 4 min,  2 users,  load average: 0.11, 0.14, 0.06                 
>   49 processes: 47 sleeping, 2 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
> CPU states:  0.9% user, 41.1% system,  0.0% nice, 57.8% idle
> Mem:   255752K av,  107444K used,  148308K free,       0K shrd,    4696K buff
> Swap:  248968K av,       0K used,  248968K free                  61144K cached
> 
> When I try to ping here's what I get:
> 
> [happy@I8L1Y7:~ (.150 Mb)]$ ping www.yahoo.com
> PING www.yahoo.akadns.net (64.58.76.229) from 24.161.133.184 : 56(84) bytes 
> of data.
> 64 bytes from w8.dcx.yahoo.com (64.58.76.229): icmp_seq=0 ttl=236 
> time=146.436 msec
> 64 bytes from w8.dcx.yahoo.com (64.58.76.229): icmp_seq=1 ttl=236 
> time=146.266 msec
> 64 bytes from w8.dcx.yahoo.com (64.58.76.229): icmp_seq=2 ttl=236 
> time=162.081 msec
>  
> --- www.yahoo.akadns.net ping statistics ---
> 17 packets transmitted, 4 packets received, 76% packet loss
> round-trip min/avg/max/mdev = 146.266/154.170/162.081/7.819 ms
> 
> I have tried 3 network cards so far, still no help. Funny thing is that when 
> I ping in Windows, I get no packet loss.
> 
> Rodney
> 
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