Gary,

responding slightly OT to something you mentioned:

we may have mentioned this before ... if not:

On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 13:25, Gary Gendel <[email protected]> wrote:

>   Something is eating up 80%
> of the cpu but doesn't show up in the prstat output.  The latest guess is

have you tested the theory that your power config needs fixing? IIRC
there've been a few threads recently talking about a symptom you
mention the resolution to which was posted (I think) by Randy Fishel
explaining how to adjust your config.

> that something is in a tight "spawn child which dies" loop.

you could easily test this theory by doing repeated "ps -ef | sort -n
+1 | tail " and looking at the jumps the pids make (assuming they
haven't wrapped around yet, which in itself - if it happens early
after boot - is probably a good indication that your theory is good).

HTH
-- 
regards/mit freundlichen Grüssen
Michael Schuster

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