yes, the weirdo lag definitely came back some last night. As I recall it was on gravelpit on temp1, I think it was around 5:30 or 6pm PST. Seems like again it was when a fuckload of people were all fighting in the same place, i.e. cap point C on gravelpit. My ping was higher than normal but it wasn't high by any measure (maybe 70's), I had to go before I could really watch netgraph but nothing stood out to me. There was a little choke but nothing freakishly high. Sorry whut but I don't think it was hyperthreading, unless it got turned back on since you turned it off. Is the CPU or RAM  getting maxed ever on the box? It totally feels like that. OR, is there some process that runs every once in awhile? like an AV scan or some shit?