Database recreation, automount and performance

[david_list at boreham.org (David Boreham)]

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> 3) Finally, the Java administration console is extremely slow. I'm 
> running over an SSH connection, but my server is a 2.8 Ghz machine 
> with 512 Mb of RAM. I wonder what console performance other people 
> experience.

Console performance is great for me. There should be
no performance problems per se on that hardware.
What operations in particular seem slow ?