Davide Moretti schrieb:
Can you provide a bootchart for your system?
Here they are:
http://kirk.rimini.com/~dave/normal.png http://kirk.rimini.com/~dave/readahead.png
Ok, In your case it's vmware-networks and hald probing your video card, which seem both to be very CPU intensive.
Parallel starting vmware-networks would help and identifying why hald looks so long at your nvidia? card.