Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] Strange client 'freezes'
From: Richard Knuckey (richardk@iprolink.co.nz)
Date: Wed Aug 26 1998 - 21:49:44 EDT
At 10:57 am +1200 27/8/98, Kadinger Andras wrote:
>I run netatalk-1.4b2+asun2.0a18 under Linux 2.0.34.
>
>Sometimes (and this gets more and more often recently), Macs (OS 8.1)
>logged into the server tend to display the network activity arrows and
>'freeze' for a couple of minutes (even the menubar clocks doesn't get
>updated); at one of these occasions I happened to sit at the server and
>looking at top, it displayed about 10-30% CPU usage for afpd (this is a
>P-133), while I heard seeking from the HDD, much like as if I had a 'find
>/' running (it's not swapping; there is 48MB RAM in the machine, and
>basically afpd is the only 'real' process running). The volume in question
>has about 35960 used inodes (a lot of font files).
>
Sounds like you have the AutoStart virus. It certianly isn't "normal" and
what you describe is certainly a tell-tale sign
http://www.macvirus.com/reference/autostart.html
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