From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: tom arnall Subject: Re: system hangs momentarily every 4 mins 2 secs Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2006 13:46:52 -0700 Message-ID: <200608271346.52659.kloro2006@gmail.com> References: <20060817141403.10351.qmail@web81707.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <200608261255.33306.kloro2006@gmail.com> <20060827012228.5549032E99@kevin.kevino.org> Reply-To: kloro2006@gmail.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20060827012228.5549032E99@kevin.kevino.org> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: mike@kevino.org Cc: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org On Saturday 26 August 2006 18:22, mike@kevino.org wrote: > On Sat, 26 Aug 2006 12:55:33 -0700 > > tom arnall wrote: > > My system hangs momentarily every 4 mins 2 secs. The event coincides with > > a 'top' entry in which 'events/0' grabs 50-95% of cpu capacity. How can I > > determine what is causing the event? > > First of all, I'm a newbie. But I'm interested in your subject. > What about trying 'pstree' > > $ pstree -p > > > |--events/0(3)--|-aio/0(44) > | > |-kacpid(5) > |-kblockd/0(31) > |-khelper(4) > |-pdflush(41) > |-pdflush(42) > > > > Then take the pid's and use top to monitor them. > > $ top -p3,44,5,31,4,41,42 > > I don't know if the subtrees will show you anything, but maybe worth a try. > > Mike -- thanks, tom arnall north spit, ca - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs