OT: Unix stutter

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When asked his whereabouts on Sat, Sep 11, 2004 at 03:51:32PM -0400,
Bill Vermillion took the fifth, drank it, and then slurred:
> 
> >From the command line just do this:
> 
> sar -o /tmp/sar 10 10
> 
> The first 10 is how many seconds to wait before you run it again.
> The second 10 is how many times you wish it to run.  The output
> goes into the file 'sar' in tmp.  
> 
> This is good to catch those thing that happen for a minute or so
> and go away.

Bill, if the system is non-responsive enough that it won't even accept TTY
input, what makes you think it will spawn a new process, or that even a
running process would be granted CPU slices during the "dead" time?  This
didn't make any more sense to me the second time it came up for precisely
that reason.  Am I missing something about sar?

mark->
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