> The other guy who also had a problem was using 2.6.27. If the 3rd guy > also replies that he's using 2.6.27 then that's pretty clearly the > problem. Might be worth asking about in Linux kernel mailing list.
We've had something similar happen on 2.6.24. Over time processes would take more and more CPU until they're at 100%. I moved to 2.6.26 and for now I havent seen this happen on any of our 35 servers. It seemed to be NFS related in our case. Cor