If I may reply to all in one: - the virtualisation technology is VMWare
- yes it is crond that shows up as consuming CPU time, not cron - ktrace -p <pid> produces a huge amount of output very quickly. Insofar as I can make sense of it, it appears to relate to name service and to various rc and conf files in .etc - tcpdump produces vast amounts of output, also mostly to do with name service. I run a simple slave name server on this system (it's there as a fallback machine for when we have problems with our main colo servers in the UK, or when people say they have problems reaching us). -- Steve Blinkhorn <st...@prd.co.uk> > > > What VPS provider? > xen? > > Distance to peers is highly unlikely to be the issue, unless you are > complaining about 10 ms jitter in achieved timekeeping. > >