I sent a post a couple of weeks back about my Pismo (10.2.6 w/ 768MB) and one of our Powerbook G4/400Mhz (10.2.4 and 10.2.6) slowing down to a screeching halt. I copied my original post below.
I discovered the problem and wanted to pass it along to everyone on the list. It turns out our dual 1Ghz G4 w/ OSX Server 10.2.6 has a problem with the DHCP server. I switched both of these machines to static IP addresses and the problem immediately disappeared. We also had an original 233Mhz iMac rev. B running OS 9.2.2 that was getting frequent "pauses" where the system would lock up for 3-10 seconds and then start working again intermittently throughout the day... really causing a lot of heartache and wasted time. As soon as I switched that machine to a static IP, the problem disappeared as well.
Hmmmm. Has anyone seen this? Is this a problem with Apple's DHCP server implementation or is this possibly a problem with how I setup the DHCP server (I don't see how, it is so freakin' simple to setup) or maybe something wrong with how our network or DNS is setup? Any thoughts would be appreciated as I'd like to really resolve this and get these machines back on DHCP but at least for now I'm back to working at full speed.
... Eric
> Howdy folks:
>
> I am experiencing intermittent slowdowns (glacially slow application
> launches, same with connecting to servers, etc., etc.) in OS X 10.2.6
> on both a Pismo upgraded to G4/500 w/ 768MB RAM as well as a Powerbook
> G4 400 w/ 384MB. Both are either relatively or absolutely fresh
> installations of OS X upgraded with the 10.2.6 Combo installer and
> software update until everything is current. I've run Permission Repair
> multiple times (even using some third party utilties in case Disk
> Utility was flaking on me), Disk Repairs (even did a directory rebuild
> on one machine with DiskWarrior 2), delete unsanity prefs per a note I
> saw somewhere... all of which seem to help somewhat or even a lot but I
> am still experiencing the problem. The second time I launch an app
> after the computer is running it generally doesn't happen. When I go
> into the Console I see the following line(s) (I put several below as
> examples from both machines) every time right after the slowdown.
> Anybody have an idea as to what this is and how to fix it?
>
> May 20 15:25:19 MWPBG4 lookupd[369]: NetInfo connection timeout: RPC:
> Timed out on initial connection to 127.0.0.1/local
>
> May 20 16:15:00 empbg4r netinfod local[272]: unable to bind to parent -
> RPC: Timed out
>
> May 20 16:23:11 MWPBG4r netinfod local[256]: unable to bind to parent -
> RPC: Timed out
>
> May 20 16:30:33 empbg4r netinfod local[272]: unable to bind to parent -
> RPC: Timed out
>
> By the way, you'll notice the "r" at the end of the computer names...
> which is what I add to the end of the "Rendezvous Name" in the
> "Sharing" system preference... seems like some sort of internal
> rendezvous lookup that is stalling and slowing everything down...
> although admittedly I really have no idea what this is.
>
> I'm in digest mode so if you wouldn't mind copying my regular email
> address with any replies I'd appreciate it! This is driving me nuts!
>
> thank you! ... Eric Morrison
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