On 29 Aug 2007, Andy Green wrote: > 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 I will give slabtop a go, but slabtop requires /proc/slabinfo which requires kernel to be compiled with option CONFIG_SLAB which the Fedora kernel and Linus' I compiled using the same configuration file don't have. I will add it to future compiles of the kernel. No this is a desktop. AMD Athlon 64 3200+ CPU and ASUS A8V Delux motherboard. Still using 32bit Fedora and kernel though. Thanks, Mike
