The problem is that the system goes to 100% so fast that I can't see what process is hogging it. I run top, watching it until it freezes and the killer process never shows.
The machine is running as a VM (XEN) under CentOS, so I can watch the CPU utilization graph from the hypervisor. But the hypervisor won't tell me *why* it has gone to 100%. (b.t.w. the CPU is a pretty powerful AMD6400 dual-core) |