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