When PR1.3 came out, I had to completely reflash the N900. In the months since then, it seems like the device has become more sluggish. I have had things like MediaBox and FBreader, at random times, stop responding, apps seem to take longer to open...However, when I take a look at htop or conky, the CPU is at idle and it is not using that much memory (currently CPU is at 5%, RAM usage 179MiB of 249MiB. swap is at 112MiB of 2GiB).

I was skimming the forums and found a thread (that I can't seem to locate again) that stated that the root fileystem may be the culprit...

So I was wondering, coming from a desktop Linux environment, how much do I need to slim down the root filesystem and will that gain my performance back? Currently, root is sitting at 67%:

I can symlink /var/lib/ (specifically /var/lib/dpkg) into /home, which would save me about 30MB. Would there be a (noticeable) performance benefit to moving 30mb of dpkg into /home and dropping the root filesystem from 67% to 50%?

Thanks,
--vr