Hi Bill, On Mon, 04 Sep 2006 12:42:53 -0400 Bill Davidsen <davidsen@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > Mark Smith wrote: > > > > Interesting, but do you run other stuff at that time? Several > distributions run various things in the middle of the night which really > bog the machine. > Doesn't look like it. Shifted the check to 3.00am, 4.00am period is now "all nothing" : 00:01:01 CPU %user %nice %system %iowait %steal %idle . . 03:56:02 all 0.85 0.00 0.38 0.00 0.00 98.77 04:01:01 all 0.75 0.00 0.34 0.00 0.00 98.91 04:06:01 all 0.73 0.00 0.35 0.00 0.00 98.92 04:11:01 all 0.73 0.00 0.38 0.00 0.00 98.89 04:16:01 all 0.84 0.00 0.37 0.00 0.00 98.79 04:21:01 all 0.68 0.00 0.34 0.00 0.00 98.98 04:26:01 all 0.78 0.00 0.39 0.00 0.00 98.83 04:31:01 all 1.18 0.00 0.40 0.00 0.00 98.43 04:36:01 all 0.88 0.00 0.33 0.00 0.00 98.79 04:41:01 all 0.72 0.00 0.38 0.00 0.00 98.90 04:46:01 all 0.80 0.00 0.42 0.00 0.00 98.78 . . Regards, Mark. -- "Sheep are slow and tasty, and therefore must remain constantly alert." - Bruce Schneier, "Beyond Fear" - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html