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Disk I/O is an often overlooked problem that can affect performance seriously. There are PIII 500MHz systems that can transfer data between disks many times faster than your P4 3GHz simply because they have a much better disk I/O subsystem.
If your system is spending a lot of time transferring files, it takes CPU time too, although usually not a lot...
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