I havent booted 2.5.x for a while on this dusty old laptop.
Never had this issue in the past. Have a feeling its some basic
utility that maybe needed.

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model name      : Pentium III (Coppermine)
stepping        : 10
cpu MHz         : 696.996
cache size      : 256 KB
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128M RAM.

When i run 2.5.68 theres a feel of highly improved interactiveness.
Annoyingly- Starting X takes at least 3 minutes (this is about a factor of
10 worse than older 2.5 and current 2.4.21-pre5. I have tried a few
2.5.6x and they all seem to exhibit this problem. Havent tried going back
beyond that.

I cleared the profile before running X; started X and captured the
profile right after that. Dont know if its any help, but it is attached.

cheers,
jamal