[NCLUG] system hangs for 5-10 seconds every few minutes

[Daniel Herrington]

My embedded Debian box is hanging for 5-10 seconds every minute or  
two. Keystrokes don't even show up during this, and then they catch  
up after the hang. It's getting really annoying. I tried running "top  
-d 1" in another terminal, but since it does the same thing, I don't  
think I'm seeing the problem process(es). What's the best way to go  
about debugging this?

Thanks,
Daniel