> What can I use to see where the kernel is spending its time?
> I am trying to find a 10-15 second annoying sleep where the
> entire machine seems to stop. I thought that if I could see the kernel
> and where it spends its time I could solve this.
If you compile in the magic sysrq key support, Alt+SysRq+P will blatter
a register dump to your console.
Andrea also has some kernel debugging patches that might be useful, if you're
feeling brave -- I'm not, so I haven't tried them yet :)
http://www.e-mind.com/~andrea/
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