I think you should try install atop. This tiny little program will
tell you witch app makes the bottleneck.

2013/6/2 Frédéric Bron <frederic.b...@m4x.org>:
>> Using Fedora 18, KDE 4.10.2 on x86_64 laptop with kernel 3.8.11-200
>> and nvidia proprietary drivers.
>>
>> I have two hard disk. One SSD with / and swap and one hybrid with /home.
>> Recently, I remarked extremely long times (>60 s) to open some
>> programs like firefox or dolphin, the latter being the most critical.
>> I suspect disk access to slow down the machine as this happens when
>> the processor is nearly idle.
>> What can I check? Can I check the hard disks, how? Could it be something 
>> else?
>
> I experience this very very slow behaviour again today each time I
> need to access the disk. However, I ran hdparm as suggested by Roberto
> and found no difference in hard disk speed compared to normal
> behaviour. But I have launched libreoffice from command line becase it
> was to slow to open dolphin and I found some errors in the terminal
> (see below). Could this be of any help to diagnose the problem?
>
> I now run kernel 3.9.4-200
>
> Regards,
>
> Frédéric
>
> $ LibreOffice(10924)/kdecore (K*TimeZone*): KSystemTimeZones:
> ktimezoned initialize() D-Bus call failed:  "Did not receive a reply.
> Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply,
> the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout
> expired, or the network connection was broken."
>
> LibreOffice(10924): couldn't create slave: "Impossible de créer le
> module d'entrée / sortie : (translation: unable to create the
> input/output module)
> klauncher a retourné : Protocole «  » inconnu. (translation: unkown "
> " protocole)
> "
> LibreOffice(10924): couldn't create slave: "Impossible de créer le
> module d'entrée / sortie :
> klauncher a retourné : Protocole «  » inconnu.
> "
> LibreOffice(10924): couldn't create slave: "Impossible de créer le
> module d'entrée / sortie :
> klauncher a retourné : Protocole «  » inconnu.
> "
> LibreOffice(10924): couldn't create slave: "Impossible de créer le
> module d'entrée / sortie :
> klauncher a retourné : Protocole «  » inconnu.
> "
> QPainter::begin: Paint device returned engine == 0, type: 3
> QPainter::save: Painter not active
> QPainter::save: Painter not active
> QPainter::setRenderHint: Painter must be active to set rendering hints
> QPainter::setPen: Painter not active
> QPainter::setPen: Painter not active
> QPainter::restore: Unbalanced save/restore
> QPainter::restore: Unbalanced save/restore
> QPainter::begin: Paint device returned engine == 0, type: 3
> QPainter::save: Painter not active
> QPainter::save: Painter not active
> QPainter::setRenderHint: Painter must be active to set rendering hints
> QPainter::setPen: Painter not active
> QPainter::setPen: Painter not active
> QPainter::restore: Unbalanced save/restore
> QPainter::restore: Unbalanced save/restore
> QPainter::begin: Paint device returned engine == 0, type: 3
> QPainter::save: Painter not active
> QPainter::save: Painter not active
> QPainter::setRenderHint: Painter must be active to set rendering hints
> QPainter::setPen: Painter not active
> QPainter::setPen: Painter not active
> QPainter::restore: Unbalanced save/restore
> QPainter::restore: Unbalanced save/restore
> QPainter::begin: Paint device returned engine == 0, type: 3
> QPainter::save: Painter not active
> QPainter::save: Painter not active
> QPainter::setRenderHint: Painter must be active to set rendering hints
> QPainter::setPen: Painter not active
> QPainter::setPen: Painter not active
> QPainter::restore: Unbalanced save/restore
> QPainter::restore: Unbalanced save/restore
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