Feisty Install: slow to bring up apps


I was running Dapper until very recently. My /home and /shares
directories for this machine come from an NFS share. When NSCD's
upgrade killed the existing Dapper->Edgy upgrade, I just decided to
reload it with Feisty (alternate), from a local CDROM.

But in the time I've taken to start this message, I've gotten
disgusted with Planner, started this message, and planner's still a
no-show. Everything opens like OpenOffice: the long, slow road.
Generally about 1-2 minutes. The machine's a 129mHz Athlon with 1/2G of
RAM and 20G of local drive space.

I thought about the NFS tuning; I have rsize and wsize at their max
of 8k...

Firefox is slow to come up, too, but I figured it was some kind of
issue with a "Dapper" /home directory and a "Feisty" installation, since
it takes nearly two minutes to come up, but it shouldn't after the first
time, right?

Almost everything is slow; Firefox, Thunderbird, about the only
thing that seems the same is UnrealTournament and trivial apps like
desktop games and such.

Anyone got a clue? [I'm not even sure how to research this one...]

Thanks
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