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Re: Aptitude Problem PPC 32-bit




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 (drw@dim-sum.org)
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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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