What I was looking for is a way to know when the episodes are occuring 
so I can have a look.  You're right though, load average is >1 during 
those times.  Which is odd since the system is idle.

FoulDragon@aol.com wrote:

> I'd bet that during those "episodes" the load average spikes; you 
> could just do a looped "uptime" and watch the figures on a console.
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