May 16, 2023
9:44 p.m.
On Tue, May 16, 2023 at 06:44:20AM -0400, Valdis Klētnieks wrote:
You could always leave 'top' running with a 0.5 or 1 second refresh in a terminal window, point some sort of video camera at the screen, and after you've reproduced it go back and look at the video frame-by-frame until you find the 'top' refresh(es) that happened during the high load.
You can also try atop as it has the ability to record and report short running userspace processes that consume a lot of CPU. -- Valentin