Somebody in the thread at some point said: > On 27 Aug 2007, Mike Fleetwood wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Since I upgraded my FC6 box from kernel-2.6.20-1.2962.fc6 to >> kernel-2.6.22.1-32.fc6, and now 2.6.22.2-42.fc6, I am getting pauses >> from the whole OS. They last ~1 second and occur every few minutes. How about running slabtop for a while and watch if anything is radically changing during the pause. Also, is it a laptop? I saw this kind of behaviour a long time ago when it was bitbanging to the battery sensor to find out the charge level. -Andy