site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: Darwin-dev@lists.apple.com On Apr 24, 2006, at 17:01 , Charles Bailey wrote: [snip] Regards, Justin -- Justin C. Walker, Curmudgeon-At-Large Institute for the Absorption of Federal Funds -------- Some people have a mental horizon of radius zero, and call it their point of view. -- David Hilbert -------- _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Darwin-dev mailing list (Darwin-dev@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/darwin-dev/site_archiver%40lists.appl... 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: 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). This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com