Re: [Fink-users] OS X v10.2.3, v10.2.4 stability

[David Orlovich]

I had a similar problem with an older 400 MHz G4 and it was cause by 
two things - first I had a faulty RAM stick - once that was gone, the 
crashes reduced in frequency, but still occurred during high CPU-load 
stuff like compiling - and it was reasonably reproducible too.  We 
traced the second problem to the fact that I (well ... our computer 
tech actually) had installed RAM sticks with two different bus speeds 
(PC100 and PC133).  My computer is supposed to use PC100, but I had one 
PC100 and two PC133 sticks in it.  I found that running PC133 works 
fine, provided I didn't mix the two types.  I removed the PC100 and am 
running it without problems not on two 128 MB PC133 sticks.  Hope that 
helps.  David.



On Wednesday, February 26, 2003, at 12:05 PM, Chris Timmons wrote:

I'm beginning to wonder if my mirrored-door G4 has a hardware problem. 
 It
crashes reliably if I get the load average above 2 for any length of 
time.

What does this have to do with fink?  The machine runs fine just 
surfing
the web; I notice the problem when simultaneously compiling several
packages at a time.  An Xemacs build concurrent with a Tcl/Tk build
usually will do the trick.  Sometimes the machine goes catatonic with 
no
panic, other times I will get (different) kernel panics.  Do other fink
users see this kind of unstable behavior from OS X 10.2.3 or .4 under 
CPU
load when building packages?

Most of my experience is with FreeBSD, and when I see a machine act 
like
this it almost always is overheating or other having other hardware
problems.  I would be mildly shocked if OS X was _that_ buggy :)

-Chris

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