No, sadly the intervals don't seem to be regular like that.

On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 7:39 AM, Duncan <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net> wrote:
> cheater00 . posted on Tue, 27 Oct 2015 03:00:05 +0100 as excerpted:
>
>> currently my computer freezes every several seconds for half a second or
>> so. Using it feels like I'm playing musical chairs with the kernel.
>> I have just one download happening on utorrent right now - this is what
>> the graph looks like:
>> http://i.imgur.com/LqhMtrJ.png and every time a new spike happens, a
>> freeze happens just before that... that's the only time those freezes
>> happen, too.
>
> Is it perchance every 30 seconds?  (The graph seems to indicate more like
> 50 second cycles, but...)
>
> Because that's btrfs' normal commit time.  If it is, there's a mount
> option to change the commit time (the wiki says commit=N, N=30 by
> default, since kernel 3.12).  You could try fiddling with that, say
> setting it to 15 or 60, not necessarily to fix the problem (tho 60
> seconds might increase the problem while making it less frequent, while
> 15 might make it more frequent but less of a problem), but to see if the
> cycle changes with the commit time option, or stays @ 30 seconds.
>
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