On Tue, 2006-03-07 at 17:19 +0000, Anne Wilson wrote: > On a new install of FC4 I'm seeing disk activity and cpu usage at intervals > rather less than 1 second, by my judgement. Mostly the cpu usage is 1-2%, > but every 6th peak, roughly about 5 seconds apart, it is 12-15%. hda > activity in gkrellm shows spikes at the same time interval as the cpu spikes, > and again, there is a big one that coincides with the cpu usage spike. Top > doesn't show anything unusual. I used to get that with CUPS. If you're lucky, you can trawl through your various log files and find something with very frequent entries. -- Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.