(FWD) Server on OS/X

[Philip Cheney]

After posting this, I realized that I was havong these problems on Mac 
OS 10.3.8.  After upgrading to 10.3.9, the crashing seems to have 
passed.  This was obviously a Mac OS problem; a user-space program 
shouldn't be able to bring the kernel down.  So hopefully, it's 
resolved.

Rod, Eddie: after going to 10.3.9 are the problems gone?

Phil

On Apr 16, 2005, at 10:22 AM, Philip Cheney wrote:

> Hmmm.  I've been trying to track down a regular kernel panic that 
> occurs when I leave Tor running for several hours.  My hardware passes 
> the tests on the Apple diagnostic CD, and Tor doesn't use more than 5% 
> cpu, so it's not a heat issue.  I had dismissed Tor as the source of 
> the problem out of hand because I couldn't imagine how it could cause 
> a kernel panic.
>
> I can't remember if it started when I went to 1.0.2rc or .3rc, but it 
> wasn't a problem with 0.9.7.  I'll start digging in to it this week.  
> I'm pretty swamped at the moment, but I'll contribute what I can.  Oh, 
> this is OS 10.3.9.
>
> Phil
>
>
> On Apr 16, 2005, at 3:46 AM, Adam Langley wrote:
>
>> On 4/15/05, Rod Begbie <rodbegbie at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Funnily enough, my Mac at home dies when I run Tor for a few hours.
>>> It sits there fine 99% of the time, but when I start-up Tor again, I
>>> get a kernel panic.  I've had almost *precisely* the same experience
>>> as Eddie (right down to shutting down Tor for a week, then starting
>>> it up again and seeing a crash).
>>
>> Well several reports suggests that it's probably *not* hardware
>> related. It could be a race condition deep in OS X which gets tickled
>> after enough load (which Tor would provide).
>>
>> So, other than making sure you have all the latest patches from Apple,
>> there's probably not a lot to be done I'm afraid. I guess we keep an
>> eye out for similar reports from other people and try to find the
>> intersection.
>>
>>
>> AGL
>>
>> -- 
>> Adam Langley                                      
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