Well, over the past few weeks, we have been having some interesting adventures with our XServe. First, the upgrade to leopard, the downgrade to tiger, the fix for Perl. Then the hack, and fix. However, in the middle of all this, our server (Mac OSX Server, Ver. 10.4.11) started to freeze.
What is happening is that when you open an application, then it takes forever for the application to open. There is no CPU activity, and it seems like the server is just waiting for something. I can't tell what it's doing, but it seems like it's just waiting, and waiting, and waiting, and waiting, and waiting...
As far as background processes go, everything works fine. The web works, FTP and all other services work, just the UI freezes. Apparent Fix: Restart Finder. It has been running fine all day since we restarted Finder.
All for now!
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