The answer they were looking for was that new SQL queries were not using indexed keys. I came up with the answer eventually, but only after some generous promping.

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Interview Question for Linux Engineer III at Rackspace:

An application has just been updated. New functionality, for some reason is performing far more slowly than existing functionality. Why might this be?

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