[#VWR-6912] Mac Pro / multicore - one core rises to 100% causing temporary freeze

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Mac Pro / multicore - one core rises to 100% causing temporary freeze

Created: 27/Apr/08 07:10 AM Updated: 10/Jul/08 07:02 PM

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Component/s:

Crashes, Performance

Affects Version/s:

1.20 Release Candidate

Fix Version/s:

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Second Life 1.20.4 (85828) Apr 24 2008 14:57:39 (Second Life Release Candidate)

You are at 280723.8, 304601.2, 21.5 in Kerberos located at sim5259.agni.lindenlab.com (8.2.33.6:12035)

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  Processor Name: Quad-Core Intel Xeon
  Processor Speed: 3 GHz
  Number Of Processors: 2
  Total Number Of Cores: 8
  L2 Cache (per processor): 12 MB
  Memory: 6 GB
  Bus Speed: 1.6 GHz
Second Life Server 1.21.0.85745

CPU: 8 x i386 (Unknown) (3000 MHz)
Memory: 6144 MB
OS Version: Darwin 9.2.2 Darwin Kernel Version 9.2.2: Tue Mar 4 21:17:34 PST 2008; root:xnu-1228.4.31~1/RELEASE_I386 i386
Graphics Card Vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
Graphics Card: NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT OpenGL Engine
OpenGL Version: 2.0 NVIDIA-1.5.24
LLMozLib Version: [LLMediaImplLLMozLib] - 2.01.14728 (Mozilla GRE version 1.8.1.13_0000000000)
Packets Lost: 0/552 (0.0%)

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~~VWR-8138~~ Mac - constant freezes

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RC Client hangs when one core of the CPU gets to 100%. When a session starts, the CPU core will stay right at 100%, and events such as scripts execution & announcements throw it over and cause the "pinwheel" freeze.

The freeze lasts between 5 - 20 seconds, with ocassional complete crashes that require a reboot of the computer.

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Sahoni Tigerpaw added a comment - 29/Apr/08 02:04 AM - edited

I am having the same issue with an NVIDIA 8800 GT 512MB graphics card, 2.66 GHz (2) Dual Cores, Mac OSX 10.5.2

It happens every couple of minutes. Sometimes it throws the mouse controls into an altered state (camera view). Sometimes the avatar ends up off the side of a deck or into the ocean because the screen has frozen although the avatar apparently keeps walking/flying. This is a big problem as the screen freezes during all activiites. I have not been able to affect this behavior by changing graphics options.

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Sahoni Tigerpaw added a comment - 01/May/08 07:57 AM

Also having issues after the freeze... camera view constantly gets set to "joystick flycam" and is stuck in this view. Changing prefs or view settings has no effect. A restart of the SL Viewer is required to reset the view.

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Sahoni Tigerpaw added a comment - 02/May/08 06:54 AM

I'm also noticing over time one core of the CPU gets to 100% then switches to another core at !00%, eventually it starts cycling thru all four cores (I have a dual-core duo Intel). During this time Activity Monitor is showing SL Viewer as Unresponsive. This happens every couple of minutes. It is happening in all regions visited.

I'm really hoping this can be addressed

It's getting old constantly falling off piers and running into people because the app is freezing!

Thank you.

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Bridie Linden added a comment - 14/May/08 04:15 PM

Dupe of VWR-5574

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Sahoni Tigerpaw added a comment - 23/May/08 01:18 PM

The dupe says it was for version 1.19.. this issue is still happening with 1.20 RC8. The viewer is unusable as walking and flying continue even though the screen has "frozen".

Mac OSX 10.5.2
NVidia GeForce 8800 GT 512 MB