I've been seeing a lot of unexplained disk activity (based on my
observation of the drives' LEDs) and CPU system time on one of the
10.4.6 systems here -- dual G5 with 3.5 GB RAM, 2 external FW
drives, and a pair of internal SATAs bound as a software RAID1. I
first tried top, which didn't give any clear leads, then thought
lsof might give me a decent start at figuring out whether this was
mdimport or NAV or some other process. However, invoking /usr/sbin/
lsof as root produces inconsistent results, with one of the
following occurring:
[snip]
I have not seen precisely this set of symptoms, but I have
intermittently (and before 10.4.6, but not since I installed 10.4.6)
seen the "can't read process table" problem before. I have filed a
bug report (4455519), now listed as a duplicate, along with a kernel
trace of an 'lsof' run, made while this was going on.
You might try the same thing, since the symptoms are sufficiently
different that the information may help nail things down (I have only
seen the problem with a full process list).
Regards,
Justin
--
Justin C. Walker, Curmudgeon-At-Large
Institute for the Absorption of Federal Funds
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Some people have a mental horizon of radius zero, and
call it their point of view.
-- David Hilbert
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