Comment 3 for bug 587107

Rebooted Saturday, now on Tuesday it is suddenly slower after waking from suspend. 'man' took 14 seconds to show a page the first time, almost instantaneous the second time. Similarly, Synaptic took 30 seconds to show the first time, almost instantaneous the second time. F-Spot was 46 seconds 1st time, 1 second 2nd time. Watching top, there was no change in swap memory reported during startup of any of these. Desktop apps open: skype, ooffice, firefox, gnome terminal, evolution, emacs. top shows:

top - 11:19:00 up 2 days, 13:50, 3 users, load average: 2.28, 2.07, 1.64
Tasks: 182 total, 2 running, 180 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 6.8%us, 4.8%sy, 0.0%ni, 43.3%id, 44.8%wa, 0.2%hi, 0.2%si, 0.0%st
Mem: 2051976k total, 1836400k used, 215576k free, 295264k buffers
Swap: 2048276k total, 744k used, 2047532k free, 963580k cached

  PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
 2570 newmarch 20 0 61596 15m 11m S 7 0.8 0:23.68 gnome-terminal
 1129 root 20 0 110m 39m 16m S 6 2.0 18:42.17 Xorg
 1824 newmarch 20 0 231m 65m 21m S 2 3.3 18:05.95 skype
 1608 newmarch 20 0 147m 34m 9184 S 2 1.7 5:27.22 compiz
  942 messageb 20 0 3364 1800 820 S 2 0.1 0:34.81 dbus-daemon
  956 root 20 0 19128 4336 3428 S 2 0.2 0:29.67 NetworkManager
 6814 newmarch 20 0 229m 95m 69m S 1 4.8 1:22.88 soffice.bin
 2512 newmarch 20 0 412m 137m 29m S 1 6.9 24:58.73 firefox-bin
 2680 newmarch 20 0 47708 20m 11m S 1 1.0 3:09.37 emacs
 9004 newmarch 20 0 2544 1248 924 R 0 0.1 0:01.31 top
    1 root 20 0 2796 1568 1200 S 0 0.1 0:00.78 init
    2 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 kthreadd
    3 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 migration/0
    4 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.14 ksoftirqd/0
    5 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 watchdog/0
    9 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.20 events/0
   11 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 cpuset
   12 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 khelper
   13 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 netns
   14 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 async/mgr
   15 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 pm
   17 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 sync_supers
   18 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 bdi-default
   19 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 kintegrityd/0
   21 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.06 kblockd/0
   23 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.04 kacpid
   24 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.07 kacpi_notify
   25 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.04 kacpi_hotplug
   26 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:17.83 ata/0
   28 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 ata_aux
   29 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 ksuspend_usbd
   30 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 khubd
   31 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.06 kseriod
   32 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 kmmcd
   35 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 khungtaskd
   36 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.38 kswapd0
   37 root 25 5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 ksmd