On Sat, 2003-12-20 at 16:29, Nathan England wrote: > When I boot with Knoppix it doesn't apear to be freezing. It seems to freeze
> about every 5 seconds, and only for half a second. But it's quite irritating
> when trying to type or work, or do anything!
Anything in your log file? Redhat writes to /var/log/messages, Gentoo
writes to /var/log/everything/current. Others write to who knows
what...
How about `dmesg`? Any unusual output in there?
Any clues in the `ps` list?
Does `top` show anything spiking cpu or memory during the glitches?
Also, keep an eye on `vmstat` `iostat` `mpstat`
If it's hard to catch, consider `sar` for collecting data.
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