Fontd process causing Mac to lock up for minutes at a time

Here is a problem and also the solution, (in case you have the same problem):
My Mac (running OS X Lion) was exhibiting a problem whereby it paused for minutes at a time; the mouse moved, but no applications could respond (and they all showed the spinning beachball). Turned out to be a rogue ‘fontd’ process. This is how I fixed it.
So the symptoms were that occasionally applications would stop responding for a minute or two. This would especially happen when I launched a new app or browser window, and also occurred when I logged in after rebooting: it would hang with a near-empty screen, slowly opening my apps, waiting a(n agonising) couple of minutes between each one.
To cut a long story short (long version here: http://dysphoria.net/2012/02/18/mac-keeps-pausing-fontd-run-amuck/ ), the solution was to flush the font cache, as described in a Macworld article here: http://www.macworld.com/article/139383/2009/03/fontcacheclear.html
At the command line:
atsutil databases -removeUser
atsutil databases -remove
atsutil server -shutdown
atsutil server -ping

The next time you have the problem, note the exact times when it starts and ends: hour, minute, second.
If you have more than one user account, these instructions must be carried out as an administrator.
Launch the Console application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Console in the icon grid.
Make sure the title of the Console window is All Messages. If it isn't, select All Messages from the SYSTEM LOG QUERIES menu on the left.
Scroll back in the log to the time you noted above. Post any messages timestamped during that interval – the text, please, not a screenshot.
When posting a log extract, be selective. In most cases, a few dozen lines are more than enough.
Please do not indiscriminately dump thousands of lines from the log into a message.
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21/12/2013 12:49:43.578 pm mDNSResponder[42]: mDNSPlatformSourceAddrForDest: connect 121.210.128.136 failed errno 51 (Network is unreachable)
21/12/2013 12:50:17.000 pm kernel[0]: **** [IOBluetoothHostControllerUSBTransport][SuspendDevice] -- Suspend -- suspendDeviceCallResult = 0x0000 (kIOReturnSuccess) -- 0xa000 ****
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          0   CoreFoundation                      0x00007fff86cb641c __exceptionPreprocess + 172
          1   libobjc.A.dylib                     0x00007fff8fa24e75 objc_exception_throw + 43
          2   CoreFoundation                      0x00007fff86cb5fc9 -[NSException raise] + 9
          3   personalbackup                      0x00000001030298e6 personalbackup + 10470
          4   Foundation                          0x00007fff8c3f9094 __NSFireTimer + 96
          5   CoreFoundation                      0x00007fff86c1d724 __CFRUNLOOP_IS_CALLING_OUT_TO_A_TIMER_CALLBACK_FUNCTION__ + 20
          6   CoreFoundation                      0x00007fff86c1d25f __CFRunLoopDoTimer + 1151
          7   CoreFoundation                      0x00007fff86c8e76a __CFRunLoopDoTimers + 298
          8   CoreFoundation                      0x00007fff86bd8aa5 __CFRunLoopRun + 1525
          9   CoreFoundation                      0x00007fff86bd8275 CFRunLoopRunSpecific + 309
          10 HIToolbox                           0x00007fff8930ff0d RunCurrentEventLoopInMode + 226
          11 HIToolbox                           0x00007fff8930fcb7 ReceiveNextEventCommon + 479
          12 HIToolbox                           0x00007fff8930fabc _BlockUntilNextEventMatchingListInModeWithFilter + 65
          13 AppKit                              0x00007fff8799d28e _DPSNextEvent + 1434
          14 AppKit                              0x00007fff8799c8db -[NSApplication nextEventMatchingMask:untilDate:inMode:dequeue:] + 122
          15 AppKit                              0x00007fff879909cc -[NSApplication run] + 553
          16 AppKit                              0x00007fff8797b803 NSApplicationMain + 940
          17 IntegoMenu                          0x0000000100001aa8 start + 52
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error=Error Domain=kCFErrorDomainCFNetwork Code=-1009 "The Internet connection appears to be offline." UserInfo=0x7f8b9b562c70 {NSErrorFailingURLStringKey=https://setup.icloud.com/configurations/init, NSLocalizedDescription=The Internet connection appears to be offline., NSErrorFailingURLKey=https://setup.icloud.com/configurations/init}, httpStatusCode=-1, responseHeaders=
(null)
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    "Accept-Language" = "en-au";
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    "X-Mme-Country" = AU;
    "X-Mme-Nac-Version" = 11A457;
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error=Error Domain=kCFErrorDomainCFNetwork Code=-1009 "The Internet connection appears to be offline." UserInfo=0x7f8b9b446c10 {NSErrorFailingURLStringKey=https://setup.icloud.com/configurations/init, NSLocalizedDescription=The Internet connection appears to be offline., NSErrorFailingURLKey=https://setup.icloud.com/configurations/init}, httpStatusCode=-1, responseHeaders=
(null)
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(null),
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(null),
responseBody=
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21/12/2013 12:51:03.000 pm kernel[0]: AirPort: RSN handshake complete on en1
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21/12/2013 12:51:04.619 pm sandboxd[115]: ([280]) coreaudiod(280) deny file-read-metadata /Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/Components/GuitarRig 2.component
21/12/2013 12:51:04.956 pm airportd[67]: _doAutoJoin: Already associated to “BigPond4447”. Bailing on auto-join.
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21/12/2013 12:52:25.070 pm netbarrierd[80]: Known network detected. Switch to profile "Home"
21/12/2013 12:52:28.508 pm apsd[65]: Unrecognized leaf certificate
21/12/2013 12:52:29.625 pm CalendarAgent[230]: [com.apple.calendar.store.log.subscription] [Failed to refresh <CalManagedSubscriptionInfo: 0x7ff26e51c7a0> (entity: SubscriptionInfo; id: 0x40012b <x-coredata://46AC892B-FBE5-404E-98CB-56251B43F9AA/SubscriptionInfo/p1> ; data: {
    calendar = "0x14000eb <x-coredata://46AC892B-FBE5-404E-98CB-56251B43F9AA/CalDAVSubscribedCalendar/p5> ";
    hasAlarmFilter = 0;
    hasAttachmentFilter = 0;
    hasTaskFilter = 0;
    isAutoProvisioned = 0;
    isAutoRefreshed = 0;
    languageCode = nil;
    lastError = "0x5680016b <x-coredata://46AC892B-FBE5-404E-98CB-56251B43F9AA/SubscriptionError/p346>";
    locationCode = nil;
    needsRefresh = 0;
    refreshDate = nil;
    refreshInterval = 0;
    subscriptionID = nil;
    subscriptionNotes = nil;
    subscriptionTitle = nil;
    subscriptionURL = "(...not nil..)";
    subscriptionURLString = "webcal://ical.me.com/alexyim/Holidays.ics";
}) with error Error Domain=CalSubscriptionErrorDomain Code=-1 "The operation couldn’t be completed. (CalSubscriptionErrorDomain error -1.)"]
21/12/2013 12:52:29.000 pm kernel[0]: wlEvent: en1 en1 Link DOWN virtIf = 0
21/12/2013 12:52:29.000 pm kernel[0]: AirPort: Link Down on en1. Reason 8 (Disassociated because station leaving).
21/12/2013 12:52:30.000 pm kernel[0]: MacAuthEvent en1   Auth result for: 20:c9:d0:a8:60:47 MAC AUTH succeeded
21/12/2013 12:52:30.000 pm kernel[0]: wlEvent: en1 en1 Link UP virtIf = 0
21/12/2013 12:52:30.000 pm kernel[0]: AirPort: Link Up on en1
21/12/2013 12:52:30.000 pm kernel[0]: en1: BSSID changed to 20:c9:d0:a8:60:47
21/12/2013 12:52:30.000 pm kernel[0]: AirPort: RSN handshake complete on en1
21/12/2013 12:52:30.065 pm configd[17]: LINKLOCAL en1: parent has no IP
21/12/2013 12:52:30.081 pm UserEventAgent[11]: Captive: CNPluginHandler en1: Inactive
21/12/2013 12:52:30.000 pm kernel[0]: **** [IOBluetoothHostControllerUSBTransport][SuspendDevice] -- Resume -- suspendDeviceCallResult = 0x0000 (kIOReturnSuccess) -- 0xa000 ****
21/12/2013 12:52:30.239 pm configd[17]: network changed: v4(en1-:192.168.0.6) DNS- Proxy-
21/12/2013 12:52:30.243 pm netbarrierd[80]: Switched to No Network. No active profile set
21/12/2013 12:52:30.258 pm configd[17]: network changed: DNS* Proxy
21/12/2013 12:52:30.260 pm UserEventAgent[11]: Captive: [CNInfoNetworkActive:1655] en1: SSID 'Time Machine' making interface primary (cache indicates network not captive)
21/12/2013 12:52:30.261 pm UserEventAgent[11]: Captive: CNPluginHandler en1: Evaluating
21/12/2013 12:52:30.263 pm UserEventAgent[11]: Captive: en1: Not probing 'Time Machine' (cache indicates not captive)
21/12/2013 12:52:30.263 pm UserEventAgent[11]: Captive: CNPluginHandler en1: Authenticated
21/12/2013 12:52:30.321 pm configd[17]: network changed: v4(en1!:192.168.0.6) DNS+ Proxy+ SMB
21/12/2013 12:52:30.328 pm netbarrierd[80]: Switched to Network (Router IP(192.168.0.1) MAC(00:24:b2:a3:4a:d0) Name(Time Machine)
21/12/2013 12:52:30.328 pm netbarrierd[80]: Known network detected. Switch to profile "Home"
21/12/2013 12:52:30.000 pm kernel[0]: flow_divert_kctl_disconnect (0): disconnecting group 1
21/12/2013 12:52:31.164 pm airportd[67]: _doAutoJoin: Already associated to “Time Machine”. Bailing on auto-join.
21/12/2013 12:52:32.466 pm com.apple.backupd[562]: Attempting to mount network destination URL: afp://Christopher%20Molloy;[email protected]/Data
21/12/2013 12:52:32.539 pm NetAuthSysAgent[570]: TUAMHandler::SetUAMType setting UAMType to 13
21/12/2013 12:52:32.745 pm com.apple.backupd[562]: Mounted network destination at mount point: /Volumes/Data using URL: afp://Christopher%20Molloy;[email protected]/Data
21/12/2013 12:52:32.752 pm mds[41]: (Normal) Volume: volume:0x7ff0f1094000 ********** Bootstrapped Creating a default store:0 SpotLoc:(null) SpotVerLoc:(null) occlude:0 /Volumes/Data
21/12/2013 12:52:33.492 pm apsd[65]: Unrecognized leaf certificate
21/12/2013 12:52:34.782 pm CalendarAgent[230]: [com.apple.calendar.store.log.subscription] [Failed to refresh <CalManagedSubscriptionInfo: 0x7ff269ed4250> (entity: SubscriptionInfo; id: 0x40012b <x-coredata://46AC892B-FBE5-404E-98CB-56251B43F9AA/SubscriptionInfo/p1> ; data: {
    calendar = "0x14000eb <x-coredata://46AC892B-FBE5-404E-98CB-56251B43F9AA/CalDAVSubscribedCalendar/p5> ";
    hasAlarmFilter = 0;
    hasAttachmentFilter = 0;
    hasTaskFilter = 0;
    isAutoProvisioned = 0;
    isAutoRefreshed = 0;
    languageCode = nil;
    lastError = "0x5700016b <x-coredata://46AC892B-FBE5-404E-98CB-56251B43F9AA/SubscriptionError/p348>";
    locationCode = nil;
    needsRefresh = 0;
    refreshDate = nil;
    refreshInterval = 0;
    subscriptionID = nil;
    subscriptionNotes = nil;
    subscriptionTitle = nil;
    subscriptionURL = "(...not nil..)";
    subscriptionURLString = "webcal://ical.me.com/alexyim/Holidays.ics";
}) with error Error Domain=CalSubscriptionErrorDomain Code=-1 "The operation couldn’t be completed. (CalSubscriptionErrorDomain error -1.)"]
21/12/2013 12:53:08.000 pm kernel[0]: **** [IOBluetoothHostControllerUSBTransport][SuspendDevice] -- Suspend -- suspendDeviceCallResult = 0x0000 (kIOReturnSuccess) -- 0xa000 ****
21/12/2013 12:53:54.000 pm kernel[0]: disk0s2: I/O error.
21/12/2013 12:55:13.000 pm kernel[0]: disk0s2: I/O error.
21/12/2013 12:56:32.000 pm kernel[0]: disk0s2: I/O error.
21/12/2013 12:56:34.567 pm WindowServer[165]: disable_update_timeout: UI updates were forcibly disabled by application "Finder" for over 1.00 seconds. Server has re-enabled them.
21/12/2013 12:56:35.086 pm WindowServer[165]: common_reenable_update: UI updates were finally reenabled by application "Finder" after 1.52 seconds (server forcibly re-enabled them after 1.00 seconds)
21/12/2013 12:56:39.000 pm kernel[0]: jnl: disk2s2: replay_journal: from: 3809280 to: 4624384 (joffset 0x3a28000)
21/12/2013 12:56:42.000 pm kernel[0]: jnl: disk2s2: journal replay done.
21/12/2013 12:56:42.000 pm kernel[0]: hfs: mounted Time Machine Backups on device disk2s2
21/12/2013 12:56:43.769 pm com.apple.backupd[562]: Disk image /Volumes/Data/Christopher Molloy’s PowerBook G4 15".sparsebundle mounted at: /Volumes/Time Machine Backups
21/12/2013 12:56:44.601 pm com.apple.backupd[562]: Backing up to /dev/disk2s2: /Volumes/Time Machine Backups/Backups.backupdb
21/12/2013 12:56:44.633 pm mds[41]: (Error) Volume: Root store set to FSOnly with matching create! (loaded:1)
21/12/2013 12:58:01.000 pm kernel[0]: disk0s2: I/O error.
21/12/2013 12:58:03.968 pm com.apple.backupd[562]: Event store UUIDs don't match for volume: Macintosh HD
21/12/2013 12:58:08.287 pm com.apple.backupd[562]: Deep event scan at path:/ reason:must scan subdirs|new event db|
21/12/2013 12:59:24.000 pm kernel[0]: disk0s2: I/O error.
21/12/2013 1:00:01.882 pm SystemUIServer[273]: Metadata.framework [Error]: mdsCopyStoreInformation failed: (268451843) (ipc/rcv) timed out
21/12/2013 1:00:11.885 pm SystemUIServer[273]: Metadata.framework [Error]: mdsCopyStoreInformation failed: (268451843) (ipc/rcv) timed out
21/12/2013 1:00:34.913 pm SystemUIServer[273]: Metadata.framework [Error]: mdsCopyStoreInformation failed: (268451843) (ipc/rcv) timed out
21/12/2013 1:00:50.000 pm kernel[0]: disk0s2: I/O error.
21/12/2013 1:02:11.000 pm kernel[0]: disk0s2: I/O error.
21/12/2013 1:02:12.651 pm Console[599]: setPresentationOptions called with NSApplicationPresentationFullScreen when there is no visible fullscreen window; this call will be ignored.
21/12/2013 1:03:32.000 pm kernel[0]: disk0s2: I/O error.
21/12/2013 1:04:51.000 pm kernel[0]: disk0s2: I/O error.

One thing our logs have in common is the "SystemUIServer[...]: Metadata.framework [Error]: mdsCopyStoreInformation failed: (268451843) (ipc/rcv) timed out" part ...

Garbage Collector pausing my Server for MINUTES at a time

Garbage Collection pauses are really crippling my server. Here is a grep of Full GCs from the log file. (The lines following each Full GC have a timestamp, yymmdd:hhmmss.sss)
[Full GC 876186K->169083K(222400K), 28.4152794 secs]
011120:004809.413:
[Full GC 883850K->214246K(259008K), 68.2294388 secs]
011120:033449.558: *** RECLAIMED MemoryManager( Idle ) - Memory Usage: 209.2 MB/900.0 MB (Free: 43.7 MB, Allocated: 252.9 MB)
[Full GC 881484K->300898K(347200K), 73.3787317 secs]
011120:045927.680: *** RECLAIMED MemoryManager( Idle ) - Memory Usage: 293.8 MB/900.0 MB (Free: 45.2 MB, Allocated: 339.1 MB)
[Full GC 886225K->269194K(317824K), 79.8212023 secs]
011120:055800.166: *** RECLAIMED MemoryManager( Idle ) - Memory Usage: 262.9 MB/900.0 MB (Free: 47.5 MB, Allocated: 310.4 MB)
[Full GC 890405K->261774K(338112K), 104.6192760 secs]
011120:064350.312: *** RECLAIMED MemoryManager( Idle ) - Memory Usage: 255.6 MB/900.0 MB (Free: 74.5 MB, Allocated: 330.2 MB)
[Full GC 893451K->306762K(361024K), 134.4052782 secs]
011120:073523.335: *** RECLAIMED MemoryManager( Idle ) - Memory Usage: 299.6 MB/900.0 MB (Free: 53.0 MB, Allocated: 352.6 MB)
[Full GC 896034K->286275K(350016K), 103.4689894 secs]
011120:081636.710: *** RECLAIMED MemoryManager( Idle ) - Memory Usage: 279.6 MB/900.0 MB (Free: 62.2 MB, Allocated: 341.8 MB)
[Full GC 882755K->260923K(310272K), 129.6787672 secs]
011120:093812.612: *** RECLAIMED MemoryManager( Idle ) - Memory Usage: 254.8 MB/900.0 MB (Free: 48.2 MB, Allocated: 303.0 MB)
You can see that between 12:48am and 9:38am, the Server is pausing for a combined total of TWELVE MINUTES! Often for 2 whole minutes at a time, during which the Server is completely unresponsive.
I have read Sun's GC tuning guide at http://java.sun.com/docs/hotspot/gc/index.html but it is not much help:
It says "Pauses can be minimized by using a small young generation and incremental collection, at the expense of throughput."
Well, I AM using incremental collection, and the young generation is the default size, which is quite small I believe. (32 MB max?)
It also says "Unless you have problems with pauses, try granting as much memory as possible to the JVM. The default size (64MB) is often too small."
Well I DO have problems with pauses, but I HAVE to allocate a ton of memory. The Server must support hundreds of simultaneous users, each with hundreds of K's of personal, dynamic, temporary data.
It also says "Unless you find problems with excessive major collection or pause times, grant plenty of memory to the young generation. The default MaxNewSize (32MB) is generally too small."
I AM having problems with excessive major collections and pause times, so according to this I should NOT grant more memory to young generation (eden).
What am I left with? Nothing! I am totally out to lunch here. The box this is running on is a dual P3-600 with a gig of RAM and Red Hat 6.2, with Sun JRE 1.3.1_02. My startup command line options are:
java -server -Xincgc -verbose:gc -Xms256M -Xmx900M
What should I do? The Tuning guide essentially says to screw around with generation sizes, but none of its specific tips seem to apply to me! This is a production server and I am worried about making things worse by playing around, so I was hoping someone out there might have some experience with this and concrete advice before I just start messing around with the memory map. Should I increase the young generation size? Decrease it? Something else altogether? HELP!

With default settings, I am getting horrible performance, under peak load, 25%-50% of server time is being spent with GC, approx. 11,000 minor GCs per hour! And a Full GC every hour or two which takes up several minutes. On average, I am losing 13.09 minutes per hour due to minor GC, and 54.5 seconds to major GC.
I tried your settings, Chuck, and they seemed to be working beautifully at first... minor GCs were now occuring once every few minutes for a couple seconds, instead of 3 times per second for a tenth of a second. Minor GC were now taking 1.06 minutes per hour instead of 13.09, more than a 1300% improvement!
HOWEVER...
After 7 hours, the Server started getting REALLY slow for no apparent reason. It seemed almost as if reading from sockets was suddenly becoming extremely time intensive. Then I got a HUGE minor GC that took 25.6 seconds. [GC 507410K->478034K(551296K), 25.6328459 secs], then a couple minutes later, the Server CRASHED with this output:
An unexpected exception has been detected in native code outside the VM.
Unexpected Signal : 11 occurred at PC=0x40573aa7
Function name=malloc
Library=/lib/libc.so.6
Current Java thread:
Dynamic libraries:
011121:231738.194: Search ( pizzala, lzh ) returned 50 results (28 ms)
08048000-0804c000 r-xp 00000000 08:06 376904 /usr/local/java/jre1.3.1_01/bin/i386/native_threads/java
0804c000-0804d000 rw-p 00003000 08:06 376904 /usr/local/java/jre1.3.1_01/bin/i386/native_threads/java
40000000-40013000 r-xp 00000000 08:06 311298 /lib/ld-2.1.3.so
40013000-40014000 rw-p 00012000 08:06 311298 /lib/ld-2.1.3.so
40015000-40016000 r--p 00000000 08:06 2424834 /usr/share/locale/en_US/LC_MESSAGES/SYS_LC_MESSAGES
40016000-40017000 r--p 00000000 08:06 2408452 /usr/share/locale/en_US/LC_MONETARY
40017000-40018000 r--p 00000000 08:06 2408454 /usr/share/locale/en_US/LC_TIME
40018000-40023000 r-xp 00000000 08:06 311344 /lib/libpthread-0.8.so
40023000-4002a000 rw-p 0000a000 08:06 311344 /lib/libpthread-0.8.so
4002b000-40034000 r-xp 00000000 08:06 1081477 /usr/local/java/jre1.3.1_01/lib/i386/native_threads/libhpi.so
40034000-40035000 rw-p 00008000 08:06 1081477 /usr/local/java/jre1.3.1_01/lib/i386/native_threads/libhpi.so
40035000-403b0000 r-xp 00000000 08:06 2769091 /usr/local/java/jre1.3.1_01/lib/i386/server/libjvm.so
403b0000-403b1000 ---p 0037b000 08:06 2769091 /usr/local/java/jre1.3.1_01/lib/i386/server/libjvm.so
403b1000-404fd000 rw-p 0037b000 08:06 2769091 /usr/local/java/jre1.3.1_01/lib/i386/server/libjvm.so
40515000-40517000 r-xp 00000000 08:06 311314 /lib/libdl-2.1.3.so
40517000-40519000 rw-p 00001000 08:06 311314 /lib/libdl-2.1.3.so
4051a000-40607000 r-xp 00000000 08:06 311305 /lib/libc-2.1.3.so
40607000-4060b000 rw-p 000ec000 08:06 311305 /lib/libc-2.1.3.so
4060f000-40621000 r-xp 00000000 08:06 311318 /lib/libnsl-2.1.3.so
40621000-40623000 rw-p 00011000 08:06 311318 /lib/libnsl-2.1.3.so
40625000-40641000 r-xp 00000000 08:06 311316 /lib/libm-2.1.3.so
40641000-40642000 rw-p 0001b000 08:06 311316 /lib/libm-2.1.3.so
40642000-40676000 r-xp 00000000 08:06 704575 /usr/lib/libstdc++-2-libc6.1-1-2.9.0.so
40676000-40682000 rw-p 00033000 08:06 704575 /usr/lib/libstdc++-2-libc6.1-1-2.9.0.so
40684000-40695000 r-xp 00000000 08:06 1081479 /usr/local/java/jre1.3.1_01/lib/i386/libverify.so
40695000-40697000 rw-p 00010000 08:06 1081479 /usr/local/java/jre1.3.1_01/lib/i386/libverify.so
40697000-406b8000 r-xp 00000000 08:06 1081480 /usr/local/java/jre1.3.1_01/lib/i386/libjava.so
406b8000-406ba000 rw-p 00020000 08:06 1081480 /usr/local/java/jre1.3.1_01/lib/i386/libjava.so
406bb000-406cf000 r-xp 00000000 08:06 1081481 /usr/local/java/jre1.3.1_01/lib/i386/libzip.so
406cf000-406d2000 rw-p 00013000 08:06 1081481 /usr/local/java/jre1.3.1_01/lib/i386/libzip.so
406d2000-41400000 r--s 00000000 08:06 1081510 /usr/local/java/jre1.3.1_01/lib/rt.jar
4142d000-416d2000 r--s 00000000 08:06 1081511 /usr/local/java/jre1.3.1_01/lib/i18n.jar
416d2000-416e8000 r--s 00000000 08:06 1081498 /usr/local/java/jre1.3.1_01/lib/sunrsasign.jar
77a9f000-77ab5000 r--p 00000000 08:06 2408451 /usr/share/locale/en_US/LC_CTYPE
77ab5000-77abd000 r--p 00000000 08:06 2408450 /usr/share/locale/en_US/LC_COLLATE
77abd000-77abe000 r--p 00000000 08:06 2408453 /usr/share/locale/en_US/LC_NUMERIC
77abe000-77abf000 r-xp 00000000 08:06 1622117 /usr/lib/gconv/ISO8859-1.so
77abf000-77ac0000 rw-p 00000000 08:06 1622117 /usr/lib/gconv/ISO8859-1.so
77ac1000-77ac9000 r-xp 00000000 08:06 311336 /lib/libnss_files-2.1.3.so
77ac9000-77aca000 rw-p 00007000 08:06 311336 /lib/libnss_files-2.1.3.so
77b37000-77b40000 r-xp 00000000 08:06 1081484 /usr/local/java/jre1.3.1_01/lib/i386/libnet.so
77b40000-77b41000 rw-p 00008000 08:06 1081484 /usr/local/java/jre1.3.1_01/lib/i386/libnet.so
77b41000-77b45000 r-xp 00000000 08:06 1081513 /usr/local/java/jre1.3.1_01/lib/i386/libNBIO.so
77b45000-77b46000 rw-p 00003000 08:06 1081513 /usr/local/java/jre1.3.1_01/lib/i386/libNBIO.so
77b46000-77b4f000 r-xp 00000000 08:06 311342 /lib/libnss_nisplus-2.1.3.so
77b4f000-77b51000 rw-p 00008000 08:06 311342 /lib/libnss_nisplus-2.1.3.so
77b51000-77b59000 r-xp 00000000 08:06 311340 /lib/libnss_nis-2.1.3.so
77b59000-77b5b000 rw-p 00007000 08:06 311340 /lib/libnss_nis-2.1.3.so
77b5b000-77b5e000 r-xp 00000000 08:06 311334 /lib/libnss_dns-2.1.3.so
77b5e000-77b5f000 rw-p 00002000 08:06 311334 /lib/libnss_dns-2.1.3.so
77b5f000-77b6b000 r-xp 00000000 08:06 311346 /lib/libresolv-2.1.3.so
77b6b000-77b6c000 rw-p 0000b000 08:06 311346 /lib/libresolv-2.1.3.so
Local Time = Wed Nov 21 23:17:38 2001
Elapsed Time = 26581
# The exception above was detected in native code outside the VM
# Java VM: Java HotSpot(TM) Server VM (1.3.1_01 mixed mode)
# An error report file has been saved as hs_err_pid20055.log.
# Please refer to the file for further information.
Yummy. Signal 11's really make my day fun :(. I tried restarting the Server, but it crashed again in the same way 15 minutes later. Then I switched back to default settings and it has run fine all weekend.
The Sig11 makes me think either our C lib is buggy (our Linux distro is getting a bit old), or we have a physical memory problem. Odd that it only shows up when I tried your new settings though...

Mac user locks files for Windows users on NFS shares

Hi Everyone,
We run a mostly Windows environment here at my school and have two AD servers which also do our file shares for AD users. Every user has a network drive mapped to L on Windows, and this is mounted on the dock of our Mac users (all Macs are bound to the AD for auth and the OD for management). We also have shared folders for different groups of people, such as admissions or art (where the issue is). Most of these divisions are only Windows, so file sharing isn't and issue - but this is not the case in our Art department.
We have a shared folder (T on Windows) setup for users of the Art department with mostly Office docs in it. Windows users can write to the share just fine, just as the Mac users can. The issue comes up once a Mac user edits and saves the file (all to the share) - Windows users are now locked out of the file because the permissions are reset. What can we do to fix this issue? It's obnoxious having to go and reset the permissions after every edit from a Mac user.
Thanks,
-MRCUR

We also have that same problem. We don't actually solved the issue but we what we do did is just unlock the files once and even they are edited or opened in windows or mac, it does not lock the file. We use windows pc and connect to the drives and just simply right clicking the file then properties a button will show in the properties window saying "unlock". After we did that, those files was never locked out again.

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