"why is my Linux so damn slow?"

[JB]

Rick Sewill <rsewill <at> gmail.com> writes:

> ... 
> Someone help us...I know there is a command to show open files, lsof.
> Does that command include a way to find out disk activity per file or
> is there another command that can find out disk activity per file?
> I'm hoping, if we identify the file(s) with disk activity, we might identify
> the service/application/kernel feature that is hogging the cpu.

fuser - identify processes using files or sockets 

JB