Opening programs very slow on ubuntu 12.10

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Published on 2012-10-15T08:43:30Z Indexed on 2012/10/15 9:49 UTC
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When I open any program for first time after boot, it loads VERY slowly (Doesn't matter how long after boot). For example, terminal takes 2-3 seconds, skype and firefox often take much longer. If I close it and open again, it loads in reasonable time (<1 second). I got Intel Core i5-2500K CPU @ 3.30GHz, so it shouldn't be hardware issue...

What is causing this?

Disk benchmark:

Average read time: 115.5 MB/s (100 samples)

Average write time: 98.7 MB/s (100 samples)

Average access time: 11.79 msec (1000 samples)

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