On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 04:52:18PM -0500, Roy Wright wrote:

> This system is a ~x86 and after 3 years of running a gentoo workstation,
> I'm at a loss on how to trouble shoot it.

I have sometimes left a job running like this

    while :; do
        top | head >>/tmp/busylog
        sleep 30
    done


It's awful but it sometimes provides clues.  The important trick is to
append to the log inside the loop rather than after the done, to force
the buffer flush each time.

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