Long pause at the end of DTrace script.

Anyone else experience this? When my DTrace scripts end, it is a very long time -- around 5 minutes -- before I get my command prompt back. During this time, other users find their commands hang as well. What is going on? I would like to use DTrace to determine what DTrace is doing, but I fear a collapse of the space-time continuum.
This does not happen on all our server, just some of the larger Oracle database servers.

While that's happening, run this DTrace script:
#!/usr/sbin/dtrace -s
#pragma D option quiet
profile:::profile-1001hz
/ arg0 /
    @addr[ arg0 ] = count();
dtrace:::BEGIN
    printf( "Begin\n" );
dtrace:::END
    printa( "%@u %a\n", @addr );
}Start that right before you end your other DTrace script. You might want to redirect the output of that script to a file. Let that run for a good 20 or 30 seconds, break it. If you can't break it, don't worry because it'll just be collecting more data about what's going on and you can break it when your system starts responding again.
FWIW, I suspect a memory paging issue of some sort. So, it would help to see the output from:
echo ::memstat | mdb -k

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2007-11-24 07:44:29| initiatingOccupancy=0.6800000
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Platform: Linux 2.6.9-42.0.10.ELsmp #1 SMP Tue Feb 27 09:40:21 EST 2007 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
16GB of physical memory, 2 x dual core CPUs AMD 1.86GHz
java version "1.6.0_02"
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time_until_cms_gen_full 144.6930408
free=3967091720
contiguous_available=2076692424
promotion_rate=2.45972e+07
cms_allocation_rate=0
occupancy=0.6110903
initiatingOccupancy=0.6500000
initiatingPermOccupancy=0.9200000
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CMSCollector shouldConcurrentCollect: 1935.690
time_until_cms_gen_full 144.6930408
free=3967091720
contiguous_available=2076692424
promotion_rate=2.45972e+07
cms_allocation_rate=0
occupancy=0.6110903
initiatingOccupancy=0.6500000
initiatingPermOccupancy=0.9200000
CMSCollector shouldConcurrentCollect: 1937.692
time_until_cms_gen_full 144.6930408
free=3967091720
contiguous_available=2076692424
promotion_rate=2.45972e+07
cms_allocation_rate=0
occupancy=0.6110903
initiatingOccupancy=0.6500000
initiatingPermOccupancy=0.9200000
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time_until_cms_gen_full 144.6930408
free=3967091720
contiguous_available=2076692424
promotion_rate=2.45972e+07
cms_allocation_rate=0
occupancy=0.6110903
initiatingOccupancy=0.6500000
initiatingPermOccupancy=0.9200000
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time_until_cms_gen_full 144.6930408
free=3967091720
contiguous_available=2076692424
promotion_rate=2.45972e+07
cms_allocation_rate=0
occupancy=0.6110903
initiatingOccupancy=0.6500000
initiatingPermOccupancy=0.9200000
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time_until_cms_gen_full 144.6930408
free=3967091720
contiguous_available=2076692424
promotion_rate=2.45972e+07
cms_allocation_rate=0
occupancy=0.6110903
initiatingOccupancy=0.6500000
initiatingPermOccupancy=0.9200000
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{Heap before GC invocations=3850 (full 10):
par new generation   total 458752K, used 428609K [0x000000057a000000, 0x000000059a000000, 0x000000059a000000)
eden space 393216K, 100% used [0x000000057a000000, 0x0000000592000000, 0x0000000592000000)
from space 65536K, 54% used [0x0000000596000000, 0x00000005982905c8, 0x000000059a000000)
to   space 65536K,   0% used [0x0000000592000000, 0x0000000592000000, 0x0000000596000000)
concurrent mark-sweep generation total 9961472K, used 6087358K [0x000000059a000000, 0x00000007fa000000, 0x00000007fa000000)
concurrent-mark-sweep perm gen total 63128K, used 37802K [0x00000007fa000000, 0x00000007fdda6000, 0x0000000800000000)
1937.839: [GC 1937.839: [ParNew
Desired survivor size 33554432 bytes, new threshold 2 (max 2)
- age   1:   15389248 bytes,   15389248 total
- age   2:   10280752 bytes,   25670000 total
: 428609K->33832K(458752K), 0.0985530 secs] 6515968K->6131457K(10420224K), 0.0990430 secs] [Times: user=0.77 sys=0.01, real=0.10 secs]
Heap after GC invocations=3851 (full 10):
par new generation total 458752K, used 33832K [0x000000057a000000, 0x000000059a000000, 0x000000059a000000)
eden space 393216K, 0% used [0x000000057a000000, 0x000000057a000000, 0x0000000592000000)
from space 65536K, 51% used [0x0000000592000000, 0x000000059410a2c8, 0x0000000596000000)
to space 65536K, 0% used [0x0000000596000000, 0x0000000596000000, 0x000000059a000000)
concurrent mark-sweep generation total 9961472K, used 6097624K [0x000000059a000000, 0x00000007fa000000, 0x00000007fa000000)
concurrent-mark-sweep perm gen total 63128K, used 37802K [0x00000007fa000000, 0x00000007fdda6000, 0x0000000800000000)
Total time for which application threads were stopped: 0.0999980 seconds
CMSCollector shouldConcurrentCollect: 1937.939
time_until_cms_gen_full 4007.5147760
free=3956579920
contiguous_available=2070817568
promotion_rate=885817
cms_allocation_rate=0
occupancy=0.6121208
initiatingOccupancy=0.6500000
initiatingPermOccupancy=0.9200000
Application time: 0.0446810 seconds
Total time for which application threads were stopped: 0.0048440 seconds
CMSCollector shouldConcurrentCollect: 1937.988
time_until_cms_gen_full 4007.5147760
free=3956579920
contiguous_available=2070817568
promotion_rate=885817
cms_allocation_rate=0
occupancy=0.6121208
initiatingOccupancy=0.6500000
initiatingPermOccupancy=0.9200000
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{Heap before GC invocations=3851 (full 10):
{Heap before GC invocations=3851 (full 10):
par new generation   total 458752K, used 427048K [0x000000057a000000, 0x000000059a000000, 0x000000059a000000)
eden space 393216K, 100% used [0x000000057a000000, 0x0000000592000000, 0x0000000592000000)
from space 65536K, 51% used [0x0000000592000000, 0x000000059410a2c8, 0x0000000596000000)
to   space 65536K,   0% used [0x0000000596000000, 0x0000000596000000, 0x000000059a000000)
concurrent mark-sweep generation total 9961472K, used 6097624K [0x000000059a000000, 0x00000007fa000000, 0x00000007fa000000)
concurrent-mark-sweep perm gen total 63128K, used 37808K [0x00000007fa000000, 0x00000007fdda6000, 0x0000000800000000)

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