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Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 10:15:56 -0400
From: "Devon H. O'Dell" <devon.odell@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
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Subject: [9fans] syscall spikes
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Hi,

I've been having syscall spikes. It's really weird. There will be
>40,000 in 1 second, (according to stats(8)) and it appears at a
fairly regular interval. I've tried running kprof, but I'm not sure
that it's running a global profile. Namely, when I come out of it, I
have tons of time spent in ``halt'', with very, very few (<100)
syscalls. Any ideas what I can do to find the culprit? It's gapping
sound playback, which is really annoying.

--dho