[OpenAFS-port-darwin] Re: Many crashes on OS X 10.3

[David Chaney]

I tested OpenAFS 11 (and 10a)  extensively on the following hardare=20
running Mac OS X 10.3.x Panther with very simlar kernel panics:

(1) Power Mac G4 867 - 768M RAM

(2) Power Mac G4 733 - 256M RAM

  I've tried the configuration with AFS cache set at 30000 (default),=20
300000, and 1000000 with nearly identical results.  I also tried it=20
with 10.3.0, 10.3.1, and 10.3.2 with little affect. The Apple Mail Tool=20=

  and Browsers (Safari, Explorer) seems to be the quickest to cause the=20=

panic.  But general use with any Carbon/Cocoa apps cause it to crash=20
eventually.  This is is definitely causing issues with testing Mac OS X=20=

as a future desktop in our higer education environment.  We currently=20
have a mixture of Solaris 9 and WindowsXP workstations (over 1000=20
total) with user home directories and the majority of technical=20
applications residing on AFS file space.

Note: My experience with 10.2.x Jaguar was overall positive with no=20
crashes.  However the general performance didn't seem as good as 10.3.x=20=

when its not crashing.

- David
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David E. Chaney
Systems Programmer
MOSIAC Computing Environment
The William States Lee College of Engineering
The University of North Carolina at Charlotte
9201 University City Blvd
Charlotte, NC 28223-0001     dechaney@uncc.edu
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On Feb 5, 2004, at 2:35 PM, Sebastian Hagedorn wrote:

> -- Nicholas Riley <njriley@uiuc.edu> is rumored to have mumbled on=20
> Donnerstag, 5. Februar 2004 12:58 Uhr -0600 regarding Re:=20
> [OpenAFS-port-darwin] Re: Many crashes on OS X 10.3:
>
>> On Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 09:40:03AM -0500, Jason Ferrara wrote:
>>> Is anyone actively working on this problem?
>>
>> I wish.  We're about to get a dual G5, so I'm happy to know it'll
>> crash just as fast as the other Macs we have. :)
>>
>>> Something interesting I did notice. If I just access afs with
>>> command line programs, I don't get a crash. But as soon as I start
>>> using carbon/cocoa apps to access afs files, I'll get a kernel panic
>>> within a day.
>>
>> It's not just AFS access that causes the crashes; running Software
>> Update is a good way for me to trigger crashes, and all it does is
>> access local disks for the most part.
>
> I'm not saying there is no problem, I'm sure there is one, but my G4=20=

> 2x1.25 Ghz doesn't crash when I do the things named above. Neither=20
> using Carbon/Cocoa apps to access AFS nor running Software Update has=20=

> caused me any problems. Note that I don't use an AFS home directory=20
> ...
>
> Just my two Euro cents, Sebastian
> --
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