I do not see this problem on my PowerMac G5, however.

Curiouser and curiouser...
Rick

On Mon, Oct 11, 2021, at 3:17 PM, Rick Thomas wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 11, 2021, at 3:41 AM, Dan Whitehouse wrote:
>> I've got a Powermac G4 running debian ppc32.
>> I've noticed a potential issue with aptitude.
>> If I run "aptitude update" I notice it never seems to complete.
>> It'll use 18% or so of my RAM (which is about 450mb I believe) but no
>> CPU. It isn't swapping.
>>
>> Strace simply reveals:
>>
>> [pid   499] futex(0xafefc484, FUTEX_WAIT_PRIVATE, 1, NULL
>>
>> "apt update" and "apt upgrade" seem to be working fine.
>>
>> If anyone can assist I would be grateful.
>>
>> -- 
>> Dan Whitehouse (d...@dim-sum.org)
> =====================================
>
> I've noticed the same problem here.  on a G4 Mac mini:
>     rbthomas@lil:~$ cat /proc/cpuinfo
> processor     : 0
> cpu           : 7447A, altivec supported
> clock         : 1249.999995MHz
> revision      : 1.2 (pvr 8003 0102)
> bogomips      : 83.24
>
> timebase      : 41620907
> platform      : PowerMac
> model         : PowerMac10,1
> machine               : PowerMac10,1
> motherboard   : PowerMac10,1 MacRISC3 Power Macintosh 
> detected as   : 287 (Mac mini)
> pmac flags    : 00000010
> L2 cache      : 512K unified
> pmac-generation       : NewWorld
> Memory                : 1024 MB
>
> and on a G4 PowerMac (Silver):
>     rbthomas@dillserver:~$ cat /proc/cpuinfo 
> processor     : 0
> cpu           : 7410, altivec supported
> temperature   : 36-39 C (uncalibrated)
> clock         : 533.333332MHz
> revision      : 1.3 (pvr 800c 1103)
> bogomips      : 66.58
>
> timebase      : 33290001
> platform      : PowerMac
> model         : PowerMac3,4
> machine               : PowerMac3,4
> motherboard   : PowerMac3,4 MacRISC2 MacRISC Power Macintosh
> detected as   : 69 (PowerMac G4 Silver)
> pmac flags    : 00000010
> L2 cache      : 1024K unified
> pmac-generation       : NewWorld
> Memory                : 1536 MB

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