On Sat, 20 Dec 2008 21:30:12 -0500, Lewis G Rosenthal wrote:

Carl's post is interesting. Do you have the screensaver enabled, by chance? When idle, do you have Firefox and/or SeaMonkey loaded? (I would see the latter as more related to the GenMAC/power management issue; i.e., the NIC throttles down, and upon waking up, causes the trap. Scott told me once (2002?) that trap 8's are almost always hardware related (interrupts), so I'm thinking of what might leave an interrupt hot...

Maybe not so interesting... [I have no clue!]

BUT, when my system is sitting [supposedly idle], I guess it really is
not!  Why?  Because I have PMMail set to retrieve mail automatically on
SIX different E-Mail accounts.  Since they typically were not first
primed at the same time, all six do not really hit at the same time. OTOH, 'idle' would, I guess, not really be a completely valid
statement.  Thus the NIC might not actually 'throttle down' if it takes
a period of no activity longer than four minutes to trigger it.

Just thought I'd better mention this so no one goes off on a wild goose
chase.