OOPS forgot the file.... *grin*

Its attached, since these are several files. your script didnt work. I used this one:

# nice -n -19 vmstat 1 > /tmp/v & nice -n -19 perl -e 'for(1..1000){sleep(1);system("cat 
/proc/slabinfo > /tmp/sl$_")}'

I started it after one break-cyclus and stopped it immedately after the next break-cyclus ended.

Francois Romieu wrote:

Christian Schmid [off-list ref] :
[...]

Let's calm down, please.

# cat>/tmp/momo<<EOD
i=0
while : ; do
        cat /proc/slabinfo > /tmp/\$i
        i=$[ $i + 1 ]
        sleep 1
done
EOD
# nice -n -19 vmstat 1 > /tmp/v & nice -n -19 sh /tmp/momo

Wait a few minutes or more until the 5s pauses happen several times
and post the result somewhere.

I doubt I'll fix it but it should give nifty graphics.

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Ueimor