Simple performance tuning tips
> I don't know if it is IO bound and don't really know how to test > such things. I just know access isn't as snappy as it used to be.
When the system is running fast/normally you need to take a baseline. Look at top, see what your percentage system, user, idle and iowait is. These can be seen here:
Cpu(s): 8.6% us, 0.3% sy, 0.0% ni, 90.5% id, 0.6% wa, 0.0% hi, 0.0% si
- us : percent cpu being used by userland code