lx
Sep 29, 2002, 02:34 PM
This is a bit of a survey, after reading Melanie's post below regarding freezing 'all the time'....
I just got a rather nice deal on a remaining top-of-the-line Quicksilver DP 1GHz (was just about to buy a dual 867 new model, but the dual 1GHz was a better deal). Installing 10.2.1 on it results in repeatable and frequent OS freezes.
On my hacked Cube (1 GHz, GF3, max ram), 10.2.1 works and is solid as a rock. On my original 400 MHz TiBook, it's completely solid, even when shagging it by using it as a Sybase server with a 7 GB database :)
However, this rather nice DP powermac locks up whenever doing *anything* with the network. Mounting SMB, Appletalk, NFS, ftp, whatever. Login to the relevant network services works fine, but subsequent access freezes the process, which in turn freezes the finder, any apps, etc.
The nasty thing is that the processes affected get a 'U' status in ps and even kill -9 from root won't kill the process. This presumably means that the kernel itself has lost control, which suggests the freeze happens in a kext (most likely as the majority of freezes are SMB-related, and the smbfs.kext is running in kernel space)
BUT I do a LOT of smb connections with the other 2 Macs, they have never had any aggro, I've never seen the Cube freeze. The TiBook is a slightly different case since it's all on HFS+, whereas the Cube and DP use UFS (for a sybase app I'm porting, I need the case sensitivity for scripts that previously ran on Sun)
SO - anyone out there who is also having 10.2.1 woes, are they network related, and are you all running dual processors?? I recall a similar OSX situation some time back around 10.1.3 where the dualies were affected whilst everything else worked OK.
And no, no dodgy RAM or loads of iffy third party apps. This is a new box and I'm just getting the OS working. Fresh install, and this seems very Unix to me rather than a Cocoa app issue.
I just got a rather nice deal on a remaining top-of-the-line Quicksilver DP 1GHz (was just about to buy a dual 867 new model, but the dual 1GHz was a better deal). Installing 10.2.1 on it results in repeatable and frequent OS freezes.
On my hacked Cube (1 GHz, GF3, max ram), 10.2.1 works and is solid as a rock. On my original 400 MHz TiBook, it's completely solid, even when shagging it by using it as a Sybase server with a 7 GB database :)
However, this rather nice DP powermac locks up whenever doing *anything* with the network. Mounting SMB, Appletalk, NFS, ftp, whatever. Login to the relevant network services works fine, but subsequent access freezes the process, which in turn freezes the finder, any apps, etc.
The nasty thing is that the processes affected get a 'U' status in ps and even kill -9 from root won't kill the process. This presumably means that the kernel itself has lost control, which suggests the freeze happens in a kext (most likely as the majority of freezes are SMB-related, and the smbfs.kext is running in kernel space)
BUT I do a LOT of smb connections with the other 2 Macs, they have never had any aggro, I've never seen the Cube freeze. The TiBook is a slightly different case since it's all on HFS+, whereas the Cube and DP use UFS (for a sybase app I'm porting, I need the case sensitivity for scripts that previously ran on Sun)
SO - anyone out there who is also having 10.2.1 woes, are they network related, and are you all running dual processors?? I recall a similar OSX situation some time back around 10.1.3 where the dualies were affected whilst everything else worked OK.
And no, no dodgy RAM or loads of iffy third party apps. This is a new box and I'm just getting the OS working. Fresh install, and this seems very Unix to me rather than a Cocoa app issue.